Students’ Experiences of Learning from their Peers using the Near Peer Assisted Learning Program (N-PAL-P) in a Private Medical College of Pakistan
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https://doi.org/10.21649/akemu.v31i4.5881Keywords:
Education, Medical, Undergraduate, Student-Centered Learning,, qualitative research, peer groupAbstract
Background: The rationale of our research was to explore the students' experiences of Learning from their Peers using the Near Peer Assisted Learning Program (N-PAL-P), so that it provides a future guideline for the implementation of N-PAL-P in our institution or any other institution as part of the curriculum.
Objectives: To explore the living experiences of undergraduate medical students in learning Otorhinolaryngology through Near Peer Assisted Learning Program (N-PAL-P) and to identify the perceived factors promoting and factors acting as barriers of N-PAL-P from both N-PAL-P tutors’ and tutees’ perspectives, within an academic year (2021-22), using structured qualitative data collection and analysis.
Methods: An open-ended Google form-based retrospective transcendental phenomenological research study was conducted at CMH Lahore Medical College, Lahore, for a duration of three months from 01 October 2022 till 31 December 2022. Purposive Sampling was done, and Otorhinolaryngology was chosen as the subject context since the primary investigator is the content and curricular specialist in this subject. The data was analyzed manually using the Stevik-Colaizzi-Keen method.
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