PeerShare

Activity Overview

Level of Study

Undergraduate

Award Type

Combined Route

PeerShare is a voluntary extra-curricular programme which runs annually during the Final Year Assistantship (March to May). Final year medical students have the opportunity to mentor year 3 and 4 students while on clinical practice on hospital wards. The aims are to enhance the learning experience for years 3 and 4 students (mentees) and help prepare them for their end of year clinical examinations (June).The programme also provides interested Final year students (mentors) with an opportunity to develop their mentoring skills and be a role-model to junior colleagues.

Each participating final year tutor is allocated one or two year 3 or 4 mentees in order to share knowledge, advice and learning techniques. Allocations are made on the basis of location i.e. groups normally consist of year 3 or 4 mentees with 1-2 year 5 mentors who are on placement in the same hospital. Both cohorts of students are asked for an expression of interest in December and the allocations are made by Dr Spence and Mrs Millar in February and published on the PeerShare website on the QUB MedPortal.

Mentors (year 5) are required to attend a 2 hour preparation workshop in early March which covers topics such as an update on years 3 and 4, techniques for small group teaching and clinical teaching, student support and problem-solving.

Groups are encouraged to meet at least once a week for approximately 2 hours and the content is as student-led as possible and will vary between groups depending on the needs of the mentees and the topics that the mentors are comfortable teaching.

Further Information

The contact for student enquiries is deborah.millar@qub.ac.uk