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Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy
Published in: Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy 10/2016

Open Access 01-12-2016 | Teaching Anatomy

Investigating the effect of distance between the teacher and learner on the student perception of a neuroanatomical near-peer teaching programme

Authors: Jonny R. Stephens, Samuel Hall, Matheus Gesteira Andrade, Scott Border

Published in: Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy | Issue 10/2016

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Abstract

Purpose

Near-peer teaching (NPT) is a highly valuable resource for the education of medical undergraduates with benefits to the students, teachers themselves, and the faculty. To maximise the effectiveness of such teaching programmes, the aim of this study was to determine how the student learning experience, and underpinning social and cognitive congruencies changes as the learner–teacher distance increases.

Methods

Second-year medical students at the University of Southampton participated in a series of neuroanatomy, extra-curricular revision sessions taught by the third-, fourth-, and fifth-year medical students and junior doctors. The students completed a validated questionnaire after the session rating various aspects of the teaching.

Results

Although all teachers delivered sessions that we rated highly with a mean perceived gain in knowledge of 18 % amongst all students, it was found that the third- and fourth-year medical students delivered a session that was rated significantly better than the fifth-year students and junior doctors across all, but one areas of feedback.

Conclusions

We believe that these findings may be explained by the diminishing social and cognitive congruencies shared between learner and teacher with increasing distance. From our results, we hypothesise that graduation is an important threshold, where there is a significant drop in congruencies between the learner and teacher, therefore, having a significant impact on the perception of the NPT session.
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Metadata
Title
Investigating the effect of distance between the teacher and learner on the student perception of a neuroanatomical near-peer teaching programme
Authors
Jonny R. Stephens
Samuel Hall
Matheus Gesteira Andrade
Scott Border
Publication date
01-12-2016
Publisher
Springer Paris
Published in
Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy / Issue 10/2016
Print ISSN: 0930-1038
Electronic ISSN: 1279-8517
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00276-016-1700-3

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