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DAVID S BLANCHARD AND ELIOT REES
TWELVE TIPS FOR PEER-TEACHING
Conclusions
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Twelve years ago guidance was provided on the establishment of
peer-teaching programmes for medical schools. We believe that
with recent emphasis on the role of doctors as teachers, increasing
evidence on the beneficial effects of peer-teaching, and a growing
enthusiasm for peer-teaching within medical schools, there is
now a momentum to firmly establish peer-teaching within the
undergraduate medical curriculum. We hope that our twelve tips
will facilitate this development and, perhaps thereby, promote
investigation of the longer term consequences of teaching medical
students to teach.
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