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标题：The Impact of Near-Peer Teaching on Medical Students’ Transition to Clerkships
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作者：Alexander C. Knobloch, MD ; Christy J.W. Ledford, PhD ; Sean Wilkes, MD, MSc 等
期刊名称：Family Medicine
印刷版ISSN：0742-3225
电子版ISSN：1938-3800
出版年度：2018
卷号：50
期号：1
页码：58-62
DOI：10.22454/FamMed.2018.745428
出版社：Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
摘要：Background and Objectives: 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. Methods: 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. Results: 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. Conclusions: 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.