Global Health Values of a Multidirectional Near Peer Training Program in Surgery, Pathology, Anatomy, Research Methodology, and Medical Education for Haitian, Rwandan, and Canadian Medical Students

Abstract

The development of an integrated international program in surgery, pathology, anatomy, research methodology, and medical education provided medical students with an opportunity to learn about differences in health care and medical education between the 3 countries. This exchange demonstrated that a crosscultural near-peer teaching environment can be an effective and sustainable method of medical student-centered development in global health.

Improving Academic Performance of Sport and Exercise Science Undergraduate Students in Gross Anatomy Using a Near‐Peer Teaching Program

“…Despite the numerous examples of anatomy peer and near-peer teaching programs that focus on areas such as nutrition (Dehghani et al, 2014), dentistry (Brueckner and MacPherson, 2004), and medicine (Erie et al, 2013;Tayler et al, 2015;Rees et al, 2016;Elharram et al, 2017;Agius et al, 2018), peer and near-peer teaching programs remain underutilized in sport and exercise science courses. Indeed, no study has examined peer or near-peer teaching program outcomes related to undergraduate students from a sport and exercise science degree program.…”

Nursing international student mobility in the University of São Paulo

“…This was also identified in the USA, one of the countries that received the most exchange students and where 31% of them were taking the last two semesters of their course (21) . In a peer training program with medical students from Haiti and Rwanda in a university in Canada, 51% were fifth and sixth-year students, which participated in the experiment and evaluated it as important for career development (4) . Therefore, this factor can be related to the students' proximity to graduation, as well as to the concern with professional life and insertion in the world of work.…”

“…The growing trend of international academic mobility, also called internationalization, is associated with the phenomenon of globalization that results from the increase in the flow of people, ideas, capital, goods and services across borders (1)(2)(3)(4)(5) .…”

“…The second occurred with a shift to a perspective of teaching-learning techniques, based on the solution of problems within the realities of each area. The third began in the 21st century and extends to the present, and its challenge is to improve health systems based on professional competences in specific contexts and global knowledge (4) .…”

“…In this sense, student mobility programs are strengthened by exposure to other cultures and their different lifestyles, languages, and health systems, which improves students' educational ability, as well as their experiences, communication skills and interpersonal relationships (4) . In Brazil, exchange programs seek to promote the consolidation, expansion and internationalization of science and scientific and technical innovations (5) .…”