Application of the Peer-assisted learning model in an infectious diseases outpatient clinic
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https://doi.org/10.17267/2594-7907ijeh.2025.e6136Keywords:
Medical Education, Learning, Peer-assisted Learning, Active LearningAbstract
ABSTRACT | INTRODUCTION: The Peer-assisted learning (PAL) consists in an active learning method between students of different or the same period, supervised by a tutor senior. Literature is quite rich regarding the advantages related to the use of IP, especially in health courses, contributing mainly to the improvement of teaching skills and communication. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to relate a successful experience of application of a peer teaching model in an infectology outpatient facility. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Students of 2nd to 12th period of a Medical Public School take part in an infectology outpatient facility organized according to peer teaching. In this internship, the students learn how to solve practical problems in addition to searching for medical knowledge in an independent way. First, the student joins as a student-learner, taking part in medical checkups and discussions and, as they acquire knowledge and practice, they become a student-teacher, now responsible for another student-learner, finishing a step of the active learning process. By the end, the interns acquire new competences and skills, becoming more independent in relation to a human medical checkup. DISCUSSION: This model of active learning was able to promote the development of social skills, communication and student independence, in addition to significantly improving learning and retention of content. The students were stimulated by their pairs to search for knowledge, in the case of student-teachers, to remember the basic content and for the student-learners to learn more about clinic and social questions involved in the process. CONCLUSION: It was observed that the peer teaching is a methodology that promotes knowledge between students and the tutor senior, through the direct insertion of the students, not just in the practice, but in a welcoming and multidisciplinary environment.
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