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Peer mentoring experience on becoming a good doctor: student perspectives
BACKGROUND: PASS is a peer-led structured academic mentoring program designed to provide academic assistance for new students in their transition from college to university studies and also for students struggling in certain units. This study aims to establish acquired skills by peer leaders associa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7720515/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33287807 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-020-02408-7 |
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author | Mohd Shafiaai, Mohd Syameer Firdaus Kadirvelu, Amudha Pamidi, Narendra |
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description | BACKGROUND: PASS is a peer-led structured academic mentoring program designed to provide academic assistance for new students in their transition from college to university studies and also for students struggling in certain units. This study aims to establish acquired skills by peer leaders associated with peer-led mentoring via the PASS program, and to explore the role played by these acquired skills in their journey to become a successful doctor. METHODS: Study participants were forty selected second-year undergraduate medical students at Monash University Malaysia with commendable examination results. Validated pre-test and post-test questionnaires were administered to explore changes in the level of communication, leadership, professional, and pedagogical skills before and after participation in peer mentoring program. Qualitative analysis of focused group interviews was performed by an independent investigator to identify how the skills developed as a peer mentor may help with becoming a good doctor. Major themes were identified with the thematic-analysis approach. RESULTS: Thirty-eight students completed the pre-test and post-test questionnaires. Peer leaders reported improvement in oral and written skills for teaching; increased confidence to give constructive feedback; better stress management; efficient time management; improved interpersonal skills; and enhanced problem-solving and critical thinking capabilities. Eight major themes were identified from the interview and peer leaders reported positive experience of working in diverse environments and shouldering of responsibilities. CONCLUSIONS: Peer-led mentoring provides a good opportunity for medical students to shoulder responsibilities as a leader and offers an experience of managing a team of their peers and juniors which in turn may enhance their communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12909-020-02408-7. |
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spelling | pubmed-77205152020-12-07 Peer mentoring experience on becoming a good doctor: student perspectives Mohd Shafiaai, Mohd Syameer Firdaus Kadirvelu, Amudha Pamidi, Narendra BMC Med Educ Research Article BACKGROUND: PASS is a peer-led structured academic mentoring program designed to provide academic assistance for new students in their transition from college to university studies and also for students struggling in certain units. This study aims to establish acquired skills by peer leaders associated with peer-led mentoring via the PASS program, and to explore the role played by these acquired skills in their journey to become a successful doctor. METHODS: Study participants were forty selected second-year undergraduate medical students at Monash University Malaysia with commendable examination results. Validated pre-test and post-test questionnaires were administered to explore changes in the level of communication, leadership, professional, and pedagogical skills before and after participation in peer mentoring program. Qualitative analysis of focused group interviews was performed by an independent investigator to identify how the skills developed as a peer mentor may help with becoming a good doctor. Major themes were identified with the thematic-analysis approach. RESULTS: Thirty-eight students completed the pre-test and post-test questionnaires. Peer leaders reported improvement in oral and written skills for teaching; increased confidence to give constructive feedback; better stress management; efficient time management; improved interpersonal skills; and enhanced problem-solving and critical thinking capabilities. Eight major themes were identified from the interview and peer leaders reported positive experience of working in diverse environments and shouldering of responsibilities. CONCLUSIONS: Peer-led mentoring provides a good opportunity for medical students to shoulder responsibilities as a leader and offers an experience of managing a team of their peers and juniors which in turn may enhance their communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12909-020-02408-7. BioMed Central 2020-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7720515/ /pubmed/33287807 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-020-02408-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Mohd Shafiaai, Mohd Syameer Firdaus Kadirvelu, Amudha Pamidi, Narendra Peer mentoring experience on becoming a good doctor: student perspectives |
title | Peer mentoring experience on becoming a good doctor: student perspectives |
title_full | Peer mentoring experience on becoming a good doctor: student perspectives |
title_fullStr | Peer mentoring experience on becoming a good doctor: student perspectives |
title_full_unstemmed | Peer mentoring experience on becoming a good doctor: student perspectives |
title_short | Peer mentoring experience on becoming a good doctor: student perspectives |
title_sort | peer mentoring experience on becoming a good doctor: student perspectives |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7720515/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33287807 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-020-02408-7 |
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