Does a combined technical and didactical training program improve the acceptance of student tutors in the dissection course? A prospective controlled randomized study

A review of teaching skills development programmes for medical students

“…The reviewed studies were published between the years 2002 and 2013 and represent research from institutions in five different countries. Nine articles were from the USA, seven from the UK, two from Australia and one from each of Germany, and Switzerland …”

“…Reciprocal peer teaching (RPT) is defined as peer teaching in which student teachers and student learners are in the same year of training and the roles of teacher and learner are regularly rotated among participants . One reviewed article described an RPT programme and ten articles described NPT programmes …”

“…The topic most commonly taught by student teachers was anatomy . Other topics included clinical skills, patient‐centred interviewing, and socio‐cultural medicine .…”

Einführung eines Curriculums zur medizindidaktischen Qualifizierung von studentischen TutorInnen mit Abschlusszertifikat

“…Current studies show that peer tutors are just as able to impart certain knowledge and clinical skills as university instructors [1], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13]. In light of tight resources, student tutors present a major opportunity.…”

Focused didactic training for skills lab student tutors – which techniques are considered helpful?

“…This training comprises five distinct elements, reaching from Peyton’s Method [20] to a tutorial on effective presentation techniques based on individual feedback by video coaching. Our PAL system was found to be effective in a clinical skills lab setting as well as in undergraduate anatomy courses [8], [9], [21], [22]. …”