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Table 1 Skills lab student-tutor base-line characteristics

From: Peer-assisted learning (PAL): skills lab tutors’ experiences and motivation

Gender

Female = 8 (88.9%), male = 1 (11.1%)

Age

M = 24.1 (SD = 1.8)

Semester

M = 6.7 (SD = 1.8)

Subject

Medicine = 8

Nursing education = 1

Months of experience as a skills lab tutor

M = 6.8 (SD = 3.4)

Prior areas of working as a skills lab tutor other than Internal Medicine

Pediatrics = 5

Surgery = 1

ENT = 1

Previous training

Paramedics = 1

Health and nursing care = 1

None = 7

Previous studies

Biomedical Sciences = 1

Biology = 1

Dentistry = 1

None = 6

Completed internshipsa

M = 6.5 weeks (SD = 4.4)b

Radiology = 1

Orthopedics = 1

Cardiology = 2

Neurosurgery = 1

Visceral Surgery = 1

Internal medicine = 2

Gastroenterology = 1

Ophthalmology = 1

  1. anot applicable for n = 1 student of Nursing education, bduration of completed internships