Opening up a tailored tutor qualification program for medical students to other healthcare students - a mixed-method study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Peer-led tutorials are widely used in medical education to promote practical skills acquisition and support faculty staff. Typically, student tutors are custom trained for this specific task. We investigated whether opening up an existing medical tutor qualification program to other degree programs is successful in terms of acceptance among students, acquisition of tutor-specific and interprofessional competencies, and which factors contribute to success or failure.

Methods

We developed a two-day tutor qualification program and conducted it annually from 2016 to 2020 with medical and other healthcare students. At the end of each course, we administered a written survey in which the participants rated the following items: their attitudes towards interprofessional l

SUBMITTER: Homberg A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8988397 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature