title: Near-peer role modeling: the fledgling scholars education paradigm.
abstract: Peer-assisted learning as de rigueur is reverberating in medical institutions around the world. Anatomy classroom activities are challenging and different, and the stressful environment of dissection rooms poses a greater challenge than what can be addressed through peer-assisted learning. It is here that "near-peer role modeling" is not only likely to be more useful, both to the students as well as their near-peer teachers, but also holds the answer to the worsening faculty shortage in anatomy education.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, University College of Medical Sciences, University of Delhi, Delhi, India. phalswal@gmail.com
authors.forename: Satendra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Singh
mesh_terms: D000715:Anatomy / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D010379:Peer Group