Peer tutoring in patient-centred interviewing skills: Experience of a project for first-year students

Abstract

Peer tutoring is a potentially valuable resource in higher education. There are few published accounts of the impact of peer tutoring in medical education. College-wide experience of peer tutoring together with difficulties recruiting medical teachers for a communication programme led to the development of a peer-tutoring project. This paper reports the impact on first-year medical students of peer tutoring in patient-centred interviewing. After attending a preparatory workshop, third-year medical students co-facilitated their first-year colleagues in a session: Interviewing a Simulated Patient. First-year students completed written evaluations immediately after the session and two months la..