Title: Cross-Year Peer Tutoring- A Self-Assessment Tool in Medical Education

Authors: Dr Manohar Lal Bhandari, Dr Ravindra Wadhwani, Dr Aparna Joshi, Dr Priyanka Verma, Dr Ajay Soni, Rashmi A Kulkarni

 DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v7i9.76

Abstract

  

Introduction

People of comparable social groupings who aren't skilled lecturers serving to one another and learning themselves by teaching” is termed as Peer aided learning (PAL)[1]. Peer tutoringis a way to assist students for his or her own active learning and significant thinking skills. Peer tutoring is the method between 2 or a lot of students in an exceedingly cluster wherever one among the scholars acts as an instructor for the opposite group-mate(s). Peer tutoring is applied among students of identical age or students belonging to different age groups. Peer-tutoring programs enhance the core learning in tutors relating to note-taking skills, textbook reading ways, or time management.

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Corresponding Author

Dr Ravindra Wadhwani

Professor in Physiology, Department of Physiology, MGMMC, Indore