Effects of participation in a cross year peer tutoring programme in clinical examination skills on volunteer tutors' skills and attitudes towards teachers and teaching

Table 1 effect of participation in 'OSCE tutor' on volunteer tutors' views of teachers and teaching.

Type of comment	Comment
Teacher as planner	Guess there should be a structure to it (teaching)
	Small group teaching much more effective when done properly with adequate preparation
	Idea of how important planning is in teaching
	Difficult to do well. Very easy to do moderately and very obvious when no preparation has been done at all.
Teacher as facilitator	Some teachers are poor at group interaction
Enthusiasm/commitment of teacher	(Being) passionate and genuinely keen to help helps to make teaching more effective.
	It's fun and could be done better.
Teacher's sensitivity to the needs of students	(Need to) understand the difficulties of difficult students
Perceived difficulty of teaching	Have started to question teaching skills and methods more closely
	It's harder than I thought
	It's nerve racking for the teachers
	It's harder than you anticipate
	As above, it's much more difficult than I thought.
Miscellaneous	Teachers have different styles, confidence, knowledge.
	Found it quite useful for myself and felt good about helping others, therefore would like to teach in the future eg anatomy tutor

Responses of the 15 students who answered 'yes' to the question 'Has taking part in OSCE tutor changed your views of teachers and teaching?' and who chose to add additional comments are shown grouped according to relevance to the roles/qualities of a good teacher, perceived difficulty of teaching and 'miscellaneous' comments.

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