Trial reportBMC medical education2017
Medical students can teach communication skills - a mixed methods study of cross-year peer tutoring.
Trial report in BMC medical education, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 20 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Pooled it
- A meta-analysis of peer-assisted learning on examination performance in clinical knowledge and skills education.BMC medical education · 2022Pooled it
- Interventions for improving medical students' interpersonal communication in medical consultations.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Which teaching method is more effective in a communication course - role-playing versus simulated patients, taught by tutors or faculty staff? A randomized trial.GMS journal for medical education · 2021Trial
- Background characteristics and burnout of Japanese resident physicians who did and did not share voluntary clinical cases.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Utilizing near-peer teaching to expand obesity medicine training within an internal medicine residency curriculum.Journal of clinical & translational endocrinology · 2025Article
- Empowering the future: improving community wellbeing and health literacy through outreach and service-learning.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Tutors´ and Students' Agreement on Social and Cognitive Congruence in a Sonography Peer-assisted-learning Scenario.Medical science educator · 2023Article
- Effect of problem-based learning tutor seniority on medical students' emotions: an equivalence study.BMC medical education · 2023Article
- Peer Teaching in Undergraduate Medical Education: What are the Learning Outputs for the Student-Teachers? A Systematic Review.Advances in medical education and practice · 2023Review
- Attendance of Near-Peer Tutoring Sessions Improves Academic Performance of First-Year Medical Students.Medical science educator · 2022Article
- Japanese medical learners' achievement emotions: Accounting for culture in translating Western medical educational theories and instruments into an asian context.Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice · 2021Article
- Near-Peer Tutor: A Solution For Quality Medical Education in Faculty Constraint Setting.Cureus · 2021Review
- Predictors of performance on the pediatric board certification examination.BMC medical education · 2021Article
- Determining the effectiveness of peer-assisted learning in medical education: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences · 2020Review
- Needs Assessment for Supports to Promote Pediatric Clinical Research Using an Online Survey of the Japanese Children's Hospitals Association.JMA journal · 2020Article
- Formative assessment of practical skills with peer-assessors: quality features of an OSCE in general medicine at the Heidelberg Medical Faculty.GMS journal for medical education · 2020Article
- Correction to: medical students can teach communication skills - a mixed methods study of cross-year peer tutoring.BMC medical education · 2017Article
- Student Perception of Case-based Teaching by Near-Peers and Faculty during the Internal Medicine Clerkship: A Noninferiority Study.Journal of medical education and curricular developmentArticle
- The Use of Peer-Assisted Learning in Teaching Clinical Skills in Undergraduate Medical Education: A Scoping Review.Journal of medical education and curricular developmentReview
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
Authors and funding
3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundCross-year peer tutoring (CYPT) of medical students is recognized as an effective learning tool. The aim of this study is to investigate the non-inferiority of the objective outcome of medical interview training with CYPT compared with the results of faculty-led training (FLT), and to explore qualitatively the educational benefits of CYPT.
methodsWe conducted a convergent mixed methods study including a randomized controlled non-inferiority trial and two focus groups. For the CYPT group, teaching was led by six student tutors from year 5. In the FLT group, students were taught by six physicians. Focus groups for student learners (four tutees) and student teachers (six tutors) were conducted following the training session.
resultsOne hundred sixteen students agreed to participate. The OSCE scores of the CYPT group and FLT group were 91.4 and 91.2, respectively. The difference in the mean score was 0.2 with a 95% CI of -1.8 to 2.2 within the predetermined non-inferiority margin of 3.0. By analyzing the focus groups, we extracted 13 subordinate concepts and formed three categories including 'Benefits of CYPT', 'Reflections of tutees and tutors' and 'Comparison with faculty', which affected the interactions among tutees, tutors, and faculty.
conclusionsCYPT is effective for teaching communication skills to medical students and for enhancing reflective learning among both tutors and tutees.
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