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Students teaching students: a medical school peer tutorial programme
Author(s) -
Schaffer J. L.,
Wile Marcia Z.,
Griggs R. C.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1990.tb02449.x
Subject(s) - medical education , statistical analysis , medical school , peer review , peer group , peer instruction , tutorial system , psychology , mathematics education , peer feedback , medicine , developmental psychology , statistics , political science , mathematics , law
Summary. A peer tutorial programme which is available to all first‐ and second‐year medical students has been in operation at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine since 1972. A retrospective study of the classes of 1982, 1983 and 1984 was undertaken to assess the participation levels in the tutorial programme and to compare the participation level to available performance parameters. The analysis revealed that 54% of the first‐year classes and 22% of the second‐year classes participated in the peer tutorial programme, χ 2 analysis of the data demonstrated that the relationship between participation in the tutorial programme and performance on examinations reached statistical significance. The results suggested that an open peer tutorial programme responded to the needs, both cognitive and affective, of medical students.