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- Title
The Impact of Near-Peer Teaching on Medical Students' Transition to Clerkships.
- Authors
Knobloch, Alexander C.; Ledford, Christy J. W.; Wilkes, Sean; Saperstein, Adam K.
- Abstract
<bold>Background and Objectives: </bold>The transition to clerkships is one of the most challenging times during medical school. To help students better cope, many schools have established transition-to-clerkship curricula. Such curricula may optimally prepare students through increasing their self-efficacy and response efficacy. We hypothesized that a small-group, near-peer-led format would be ideally suited to help students achieve these outcomes.<bold>Methods: </bold>During process improvement for a transition-to-clerkship curriculum, we conducted an informal focus group and subsequent survey of postclerkship students to guide curricular innovation, including incorporation of third- and fourth-year students as near-peer instructors in a seminar format. Seminars included three sequential small-group discussions focused on discrete topic areas and concluded with a large-group session highlighting salient discussion points. To evaluate the impact of this educational strategy, near-peer learners were surveyed before and after the seminars.<bold>Results: </bold>Junior student participants reported feeling more prepared to integrate into the health care team, develop a clerkship study plan, and access applicable, valuable study materials, both immediately following the seminars and 6 months later, demonstrating increased self-efficacy. These students placed equal or greater value on these topics as compared to students in previous year groups, demonstrating similar response efficacy.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>This study demonstrated an increase in student self-efficacy that persisted 6 months postintervention, in addition to similar response efficacy. Future research could be directed toward: (1) investigating whether improvements in self-efficacy among students transitioning to clerkships are associated with improved clerkship performance and (2) studying outcomes for near-peer teachers.
- Subjects
CLINICAL competence; CURRICULUM; EDUCATIONAL tests &; measurements; FOCUS groups; INTERNET; MEDICAL education; PSYCHOLOGY of medical students; SELF-efficacy; TEACHING; AFFINITY groups
- Publication
Family Medicine, 2018, Vol 50, Issue 1, p58
- ISSN
0742-3225
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.22454/FamMed.2018.745428