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Methods Fourteen tutors participated across two one-semester cycles—seven tutors in 2022 and seven in 2023. Each cycle included standardized tutor orientation, weekly one-on-one tutoring sessions, and faculty oversight. Data sources consisted of 24 tutor activity reports and semi-structured tutor interviews, and a survey of tutees was additionally conducted to contextualize the tutoring environment. Qualitative data were analyzed thematically.
Results Tutors engaged in five major domains of tutoring practice: diagnostic assessment of learning routines, structured academic coaching, lifestyle and behavioral stabilization, management of communication and relational challenges, and iterative adjustment of goals and strategies. They reported that peer tutoring required substantial emotional and relational work, often addressing broader behavioral patterns rather than isolated content gaps. Consistent with tutors’ accounts, tutees’ survey responses indicated improvements in learning motivation, study strategies, time management, and satisfaction with communication.
Conclusion Structured peer tutoring extended beyond academic assistance to encompass academic, behavioral, and emotional guidance. Participation also contributed to tutors’ metacognitive awareness, communication skills, and emerging professional identity. These findings offer implications for developing sustainable peer-led support programs in medical education.
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Methods Test scores of the Basic Medicine Comprehensive Examination (BMCE), conducted by the Medical Education Assessment Corporation, and internal clinical knowledge tests of the three integrated courses of the Pusan National University School of Medicine, during the last 3 years (2015–2017) were compared with an unpaired Student t-test and the results were considered to be significant at p<0.05.
Results Curriculum revision in 2017 introduced the integration of basic and clinical courses at the organ level of medical education. Scores of BMCE and internal clinical knowledge tests in three integrated courses after curriculum revision showed a statistically significant increase after curriculum revision.
Conclusion Curriculum revisions that integrated the basic and clinical courses in organ-level education improved student’s academic performance significantly.
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Moreover, maladaptive perfectionism influenced their academic efficacy indirectly via their performanceapproach goals. However, maladaptive perfectionism did not influence their academic efficacy directly or indirectly via performance-avoidance goal.
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For this study, 269 students were sampled from the first to forth year of medical school. MBTI test was administered to the students and information about their study satisfaction was collected.
The results of this study were as followss: First, the result of MBTI test showed that most medical students are personality type ISTJ(22.4 %), followed by ESTJ (11.6%), ISTP (10.4%).
Second, the relationship between study satisfaction and personalty indicator "E-I" and "J-P" was statistically significant. Also, the relationship between adaptation as a subscale of satisfaction and personality indicator "E-I" and "J-P" was statistically significant. The relationship between attitude and personality was except for the indicator "S-N", statistically significant. Finally the relationship between satisfaction and personality indicator "E-I", "S-N", J-P" was statistically significant.
Third, the result of t-test showed that academic achievement was significantly associated with student's personality in the dimensions Thinking(T) and Feeling(F). Students with personal type Thinking(T) had higher academic achievement than students with personal type Feeling(F).
These results imply that a diagnosis of personality can be used to develop programs for medical students which can help them to be satisfied with academic environment and therefore to enhance their academic achievement. As well, these results can be used to analyse the appropriate aptitude for medicine which is very important in the selection of medical students.
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