Students as Partners: Setting up student-led educational initiatives: Invited workshop at ASME 2022, Aberdeen 5-7 July 2022

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn. This quote will ring true for the majority of teachers and learners.

Over recent years, there has been widespread recognition of the benefits gained when students play an active role in shaping their learning experiences.

Peer and near-peer led learning schemes can be a fantastic way to engage students in communities of practice related to learning and teaching.

In medical education, skills-based learning in particular can lend itself to this sort of model. Resuscitation for Medical Disciplines (RMD UK) is a national educational initiative, currently running at four UK Medical Schools (Birmingham, Bristol, Brunel, Warwick), to deliver basic life support training to healthcare students using a peer-led teaching model. Students are engaged in all aspects of the scheme, from teaching and assessment delivery, planning and running the scheme, as well as research and outreach initiatives.

This workshop will support delegates to learn more about implementing Student Partnership Learning Communities in medical education. Using the example of the RMD scheme as a model and developing ideas from Advance HE Students as Partners model, (Healey et al (2014) Engagement through partnership: students as partners in learning and teaching in higher education, https://documents.advance-he.ac.uk/download/file/63), delegates will be supported to develop their own ideas through learning and collaboration around the four broad areas of partnership recommended by Healey et al (2014): learning, teaching and assessment; subject-based research and inquiry; scholarship of teaching and learning; curriculum design and pedagogic consultancy.