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Alvarez S, Schultz JH. Practice Report / Bericht aus der Praxis: An exploration of peer tutor roles and recruitment at German medical schools. Z Evid Fortbild Qual Gesundhwes. 2017;127:80-84doi: 10.1016/j.zefq.2017.10.004.
Alvarez, S., & Schultz, J. H. (2017). Practice Report / Bericht aus der Praxis: An exploration of peer tutor roles and recruitment at German medical schools. Zeitschrift fur Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualitat im Gesundheitswesen, 12780-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zefq.2017.10.004
Alvarez, Simone, and Schultz, Jobst-Hendrik. "Practice Report / Bericht aus der Praxis: An exploration of peer tutor roles and recruitment at German medical schools." Zeitschrift fur Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualitat im Gesundheitswesen vol. 127 (2017): 80-84. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zefq.2017.10.004
Alvarez S, Schultz JH. Practice Report / Bericht aus der Praxis: An exploration of peer tutor roles and recruitment at German medical schools. Z Evid Fortbild Qual Gesundhwes. 2017 Nov;127:80-84. doi: 10.1016/j.zefq.2017.10.004. Epub 2017 Nov 09. PMID: 29128429.
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Z Evid Fortbild Qual Gesundhwes. 2017 Nov;127:80-84. doi: 10.1016/j.zefq.2017.10.004. Epub 2017 Nov 09.

Practice Report / Bericht aus der Praxis: An exploration of peer tutor roles and recruitment at German medical schools.

Zeitschrift fur Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualitat im Gesundheitswesen

Simone Alvarez, Jobst-Hendrik Schultz

Affiliations

  1. Clinic for General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Clinic Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. Electronic address: [email protected].
  2. Clinic for General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Clinic Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.

PMID: 29128429 DOI: 10.1016/j.zefq.2017.10.004

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Almost all medical faculties in Germany actively employ peer tutors. However, little is known about the roles these tutors play from a faculty point of view. Also, there are only few descriptions of the tutor recruitment and selection processes.

METHODS: 32 of the medical faculties in Germany, where tutors are used in the training of medical students, were asked to provide information on the role and recruitment of tutors by means of a partially standardized questionnaire.

RESULTS: At the surveyed faculties (return rate 28%), tutors are mostly employed for the purpose of teaching staff support. Even though desired in individual cases, tutors rarely play an active role in curriculum- or faculty development. The way tutor recruitment is handled strongly depends on the capabilities of the individual faculties and the way tutors are utilized. In many cases this process is structured, consisting of written and oral application phases, in other cases recruitment takes place without formal application procedures. The selection criteria, however, were found to be very similar at most faculties.

CONCLUSION: The role of tutors from the faculties' point of view depends strongly on the respective nature of the tutorials, which are just as diverse as the approaches to tutor recruitment.

Copyright © 2017. Published by Elsevier GmbH.

Keywords: Auswahl; Peer-assisted learning; Rekrutierung; peer Tutoren; peer tutoring; peer-assisted-learning; recruitment; selection

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