A New First‐year Course Designed and Taught by a Senior Medical Student

@article{Josephson2002ANF,
  title={A New First‐year Course Designed and Taught by a Senior Medical Student},
  author={Scott Andrew Josephson and Alison J Whelan},
  journal={Academic Medicine},
  year={2002},
  volume={77},
  pages={1207–1211}
}
Senior medical students have been utilized at some institutions in limited teaching roles for first-year medical students. The authors describe a pilot program in which a motivated senior medical student completely designed and taught an original course to a group of first-year students in academic year 2000–01. The 16-hour course was offered as a selective for first-year students. This course concentrated on clinically-focused topics, evidence-based medicine, and physical examination skills… 
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