title: The good student is more than a listener - The 12+1 roles of the medical student.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The process of medical education, particularly in the fast evolving new era of medical metaschools, is a broad and complex issue. Harden & Crosby claimed that a good teacher is more than a lecturer, and identified 12 roles that certify a good and capable teacher. However, this is only half the truth: the good student is more than a listener. Teaching-and-learning is not simply a one-way process, and, as medical students are not children, the relationship between teacher and students involves andragogy rather than pedagogy. We therefore propose the 12+1 roles of the student. SUMMARY OF WORK: The Harden & Crosby paper was distributed in a class of 90 third year Ioannina University medical students, who were asked to think about the student's roles. A small discussion group brainstormed ideas, which were then refined further by the authors.
  
  
  RESULTS
  12+1 roles of the good medical student were produced and grouped into six areas: information receiver, in lectures and clinical context; role model in learning, in class, with the added subarea of comparative choice of role models; teaching facilitator and teacher's mentor; teacher's assessor and curriculum evaluator; active participator and keeping-up with curriculum; resource consumer/co-creator and medical literature researcher. The ideal student should fulfil the majority if not all of these complementary roles.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These 12+1 student's roles are complementary to the 12 roles of the teacher and help reshaping our understanding of today's medical education process.
authors.affiliation: University of Ioannina Medical School, Greece. elvira-1989@hotmail.com
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Karakitsiou
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Markou
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kyriakou
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pieri
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Abuaita
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bourousis
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hido
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tsatsaragkou
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Boukali
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: de Burbure
authors.forename: I D K
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Dimoliatis
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D013337:Students, Medical