How to select the best peer tutors to deliver clinical skills training CA ROL I N E E V E RDEN ST E LL A I VA Z
Aims To explore ◦ Potential recruitment processes ◦ Their benefits, disadvantages and potential biases
To discuss ◦ Advantages to students participating in peer tutor schemes ◦ Advantages to institutions using peer tutors
To plan ◦ How peer tutoring opportunities could improve or develop in your institution
How do we deliver clinical skills teaching? Yr 1 MBBS4 Transition year
Penultimate year
Final year
Yr 1&2 MBBS5
Teaching by peer tutors
Teaching by clinical tutors
Teaching on the wards
Clinical skills teaching at SGUL • Small groups of 6-8 students • Each group has a tutor • Groups taught simultaneously in clinical cubicles • Each session overseen by a lead tutor Peer tutors • Selected students from T, P & F years
Current programme tutors? Once yearly application window Application form listing exam and OSCE results Students who are resitting or on an interruption of studies are excluded
Ranked based on OSCE score and number of failed stations Top ranking students invited to training and assessment afternoon
Training and assessment afternoon and assessment afternoon 30-35 participants – run on two occasions Welcomed with sandwich lunch Divided into 5 groups randomly Tables circled facing a central whiteboard Each group given a folder containing instructions for their task and time to prepare Lessons from each session drawn out by facilitator Clinical skills lecturers and admin staff all attend to assist with the assessment element – so each candidate is assessed by one admin and one clinical member of staff
What do you do in your institutions? Paid tutoring to support struggling students Paid tutoring to deliver curriculum
Anatomy teaching assistants
Informal peer tutoring
Societies offering tutoring
Societies offering mock OSCEs
PBL/CBL tutors
Volunteer tutoring as outreach work
Self-selection Exam results How should we recruit tutors?
Application form Interview
Mock teaching
Financial incentives What motivates peer tutors to participate?
Educational advantage Career progression
What motivates institutions to use peer tutoring
Financial
Increase student engagement
Students driving change
Poor feedback on existing methods
Need to increase faculty numbers
National Student Survey
How could you improve or implement peer tutoring in your institution? What opportunities are there?
Who needs to be involved?
Who can help you?
How will you fund it?
What opposition can you anticipate, and how will you overcome it?
Some ideas…
One of our activities…. Group five briefing sheet ◦ Please explain the task to the other groups ◦ A group of senior clinicians are appalled to hear that junior students are taught clinical skills by more senior students. They make representations to the Principal and are given time in the next meeting to argue their case. ◦ You will be assigned to a viewpoint – pro or anti peer tutoring. Using the materials provided please research your case in groups and be prepared to debate the topic in what promises to be a very heated meeting. ◦ Assign your colleagues into pro or anti groups and hand out research materials. ◦ Allow 15 minutes for research then chair the meeting. ◦ During research time, plan how you will chair the meeting and debate and how you will bring about a consensus view. ◦ The debate should be concluded within 30 minutes.
And so Should we be using peer tutors? Are we creating additional advantage for students who have already experienced educational privilege?
Devil’s advocates welcome…..
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