Medical students as peer tutors: a systematic review
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- 9 June 2014
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Medical Education
- Vol. 14 (1), 115
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-14-115
Abstract
While Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) has long occurred informally in medical education, in the past ten years, there has been increasing international interest in formally organised PAL, with many benefits for both the students and institutions. We conducted a systematic review of the literature to establish why and how PAL has been implemented, focussing on the recruitment and training process for peer tutors, the benefits for peer tutors, and the competency of peer tutors.Keywords
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