Medical Student EducationStudents Teaching Students: Evaluation of a “Near-Peer” Teaching Experience
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“Near-Peer” Teaching: Preparing the Fourth-Year Students
Eighteen fourth-year (senior) medical students enrolled in the main senior radiology elective participated in this pilot near-peer teaching program. Of the 18, one indicated an intention to enter radiology; the remainder planned to enter a variety of fields, as is common for our elective.
The elective runs repeatedly over the course of the year; however, a single elective month was selected for this pilot. Along with the standard elective lectures and activities, students received 2 hours of
Results
Seventeen of the 18 fourth-year students and 104 of 119 first-year students completed the surveys (94% and 87% response rate, respectively). The participating faculty included two senior assistant professors and one junior associate professor from interventional radiology, abdominal imaging, and thoracic imaging sections. Radiology residents included three postgraduate year 3 and three postgraduate year 4 level residents, approximately half of whom had an interest in interventional radiology.
Discussion
We developed a novel “near-peer” teaching experience that was well received by senior and junior students alike. The program included all of the fourth-year students enrolled in our senior radiology elective. After receiving a training program in ultrasound, developed almost exclusively with their learning needs in mind, the fourth-year students co-instructed a hands-on small group session for first-year students. The goal of the near-peer session was appropriately basic and was targeted to a
Conclusion
We developed a novel program of fourth-year medical students co-instructing first-year medical students in a radiology-focused, hands-on teaching session. This “near-peer” teaching was universally liked. The more junior students (the learners) found the senior students to be quite helpful and knowledgeable as co-instructors. The senior students (the teachers) found the sessions helped develop their teaching skills and solidify their knowledge of the topic. Senior students would likely benefit
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