Trial reportBritish dental journal2015
Peer assisted learning: teaching dental skills and enhancing graduate attributes.
Trial report in British dental journal, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Do Generic Skills Achieved During Undergraduate Dental Education Meet the Need in Clinical Practice?European journal of dental education : official journal of the Association for Dental Education in Europe · 2026Article
- Integrating team-based and peer-teaching strategies for standardized dental residency: a path to active learning and professional growth.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Near-peer teaching through work shadowing: Developing confidence and camaraderie.Journal of dental education · 2024Article
- Dental Education: A Guide for Novice Tutors.Cureus · 2023Review
- 'Student tutors go online' - Investigation of cognitive and social congruence in online student tutorials - a longitudinal study.Medical education online · 2022Article
- An observational study of learning effects of peer-assisted learning tests in COVID-19 pandemic times.Journal of dental education · 2022Observational
- Near-Peer Tutor: A Solution For Quality Medical Education in Faculty Constraint Setting.Cureus · 2021Review
- Qualitative analysis of cognitive and social congruence in peer-assisted learning - The perspectives of medical students, student tutors and lecturers.Medical education online · 2020Article
- Determining the effectiveness of peer-assisted learning in medical education: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences · 2020Review
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Authors and funding
4 authors.
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Abstract
This study describes a pilot project in which peer assisted learning (PAL) is used to teach dental clinical skills. A cluster randomised controlled trial compared opinions of Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) students from peer-led groups versus staff-led groups in a clinical (impression taking) and a pre-clinical (handpiece skills) task. BDS5 (peer tutors) in their final year delivered teaching to BDS1 (tutees) for each task. Quantitative data from tutees and the peer tutors was gathered from questionnaires, along with open written comments. PAL was well received by both tutees and peer tutors. BDS1 tutees rated BDS5 peer tutors highly for delivery of information, and level of feedback. The tutees considered peer tutors more approachable and less intimidating than staff. Peer tutors reported their own knowledge had increased as a result of teaching. In a summative OSCE (objective structured clinical examination) four months following the teaching, no statistical significant difference between the performance of peer-led and staff-led groups was found at stations related to the subject matter in question. It is argued that PAL, as well as being a useful method of delivering subject-specific teaching, is able to contribute to the development of graduate attributes.
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