Peer nominations of outstanding medical students

Peer Assessment in evaluation of Medical sciences students

Introduction: Recently, peer assessment is especially noticed as a progress evaluation method. Although it is a known method, it is a novel method in many countries that they use traditional methods. Then the topic of current review article is peer assessment in medical education. Methods: The documents related to peer assessment, advantages, disadvantages, applications and how use it extracte...

Teetering between Cooperation and Competition: Social Comparisons and Peer Nominations

Within organizations, individuals both collaborate with peers in pursuit of common goals and compete with those same peers for rewards and promotions. Whether individuals perceive their peers in competitive or collaborative terms can fundamentally influence important organizational interactions and decisions. In this work, we document the prevalence of these labile relationships and we describe...

Comparison of Self and Peer Assessment on the Clinical Competence of Medical Students of Jahrom University of Medical Sciences

Introduction: Assessing students' professional skills, teamwork and communication proficiency in the clinical environment by multiple evaluators such as educators, peers and students themselves is essential. The aim of this study was to compare the self-assessment method and peer assessment as means of evaluation on the clinical competence of medical students of Jahrom University of Medical Sci...

Medical students as peer tutors: a systematic review

BACKGROUND While Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) has long occurred informally in medical education, in the past ten years, there has been increasing international interest in formally organised PAL, with many benefits for both the students and institutions. We conducted a systematic review of the literature to establish why and how PAL has been implemented, focussing on the recruitment and trainin...

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