Karakitsiou DE, Markou A, Kyriakou P, Pieri M, Abuaita M, Bourousis E, Hido T, Tsatsaragkou A, Boukali A, de Burbure C, Dimoliatis IDK. The good student is more than a listener - The 12+1 roles of the medical student.
Med Teach 2012;
34:e1-8. [PMID:
22250690 DOI:
10.3109/0142159x.2012.638006]
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Abstract
BACKGROUND
The process of medical education, particularly in the fast evolving new era of medical metaschools, is a broad and complex issue. Harden & Crosby claimed that a good teacher is more than a lecturer, and identified 12 roles that certify a good and capable teacher. However, this is only half the truth: the good student is more than a listener. Teaching-and-learning is not simply a one-way process, and, as medical students are not children, the relationship between teacher and students involves andragogy rather than pedagogy. We therefore propose the 12+1 roles of the student. SUMMARY OF WORK: The Harden & Crosby paper was distributed in a class of 90 third year Ioannina University medical students, who were asked to think about the student's roles. A small discussion group brainstormed ideas, which were then refined further by the authors.
SUMMARY OF RESULTS
12+1 roles of the good medical student were produced and grouped into six areas: information receiver, in lectures and clinical context; role model in learning, in class, with the added subarea of comparative choice of role models; teaching facilitator and teacher's mentor; teacher's assessor and curriculum evaluator; active participator and keeping-up with curriculum; resource consumer/co-creator and medical literature researcher. The ideal student should fulfil the majority if not all of these complementary roles.
TAKE-HOME MESSAGE
These 12+1 student's roles are complementary to the 12 roles of the teacher and help reshaping our understanding of today's medical education process.
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