Peer-teaching: an important approach to train medical students' teaching ability / 中华医学教育探索杂志

Students of clinical medicine are the main reserve forces of clinicians,soit is necessary to train medical students' teaching ability at undergraduate level.As one of the important methods to improve the teaching ability of medical students,peer-teaching is widely used in foreign medical colleges.Peer-teaching involves the teacher and learner who are both medical students.After independent learning,the students served as teachers take the form ofindividualor group teaching and formal or informal teaching to teach the learners.Peer-teaching improves the students' self-learning ability,stimulates the enthusiasm of learning,and cultivates the students' teamwork ability,so it is worthy of being a reference for domestic medical colleges.