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| Title |
Medical students as peer tutors: a systematic review
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medical Education, June 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6920-14-115 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Annette Burgess, Deborah McGregor, Craig Mellis |
| Abstract |
While Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) has long occurred informally in medical education, in the past ten years, there has been increasing international interest in formally organised PAL, with many benefits for both the students and institutions. We conducted a systematic review of the literature to establish why and how PAL has been implemented, focussing on the recruitment and training process for peer tutors, the benefits for peer tutors, and the competency of peer tutors. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 8 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 25% |
| Spain | 1 | 13% |
| Unknown | 5 | 63% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 50% |
| Scientists | 2 | 25% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 25% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 428 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 2 | <1% |
| Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Denmark | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 421 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 61 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 56 | 13% |
| Other | 35 | 8% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 29 | 7% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 29 | 7% |
| Other | 119 | 28% |
| Unknown | 99 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 209 | 49% |
| Social Sciences | 26 | 6% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 16 | 4% |
| Psychology | 12 | 3% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 5 | 1% |
| Other | 42 | 10% |
| Unknown | 118 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 October 2017.
All research outputs
#6,751,180
of 25,363,685 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Education
#1,137
of 3,970 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#59,618
of 243,291 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Education
#18
of 54 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 3,970 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.5. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 70% of its peers.
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