Final Year Medical Students’ Perspective on the Use of Peer Assessments in the Training of Future Doctors to Obtain and Provide Quality Feedback [Letter]

Abstract

Ibrahim Hussain, Mubashar Ameen, Hamdip Singh University of Nottingham, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Medical School, Queen’s Medical Center, Nottingham NG7 2UH, EnglandCorrespondence: Ibrahim HussainUniversity of Nottingham, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Medical School, Queen’s Medical Center, Nottingham NG7 2UH, EnglandEmail [email protected] The paper on the use of peer assessments in the training of medical students to obtain and provide quality feedback, by Lerchenfeldt and Taylor,1 was read with great interest. The authors provided an intriguing insight into the current use of peer assessments and how they could be better incorporated into the curriculum. We, as final year medical students, believe that there are other factors which should also be considered.   View the original paper by Lerchenfeldt and Taylor  

Keywords

• peer assessment
• peer feedback
• medical students
• medical education