PeerWise: A Peer-Assisted Learning Tool for Medical Undergraduates at Cardiff University, Slides of Medicine

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PeerWise

A tool for peer-assisted learning

in medical undergraduates

Phil Smith

Sub-Dean for Assessments

Cardiff University School of Medicine

PeerWise

What is PeerWise?

https:// peerwise.cs.auckland.ac.nz

Assessment for learning

• Writing questions helps learning
• Practice questions help all students
• Question writers do better in exams

Peerwise

• Formative question writing
• Anonymous
• Badges and league tables

Single Best Answer

‘most correct’

Single best answer question A 72-year-old woman develops sudden loss of vision in the right eye. She has a 2-week history of temporal headache, jaw ache, and shoulder pain. On examination, her visual acuity is 6/6 (left) but reduced to hand movements only on the right. What investigation most supports the likely diagnosis? A. blood culture B. CT scan of head C. erythrocyte sedimentation rate D. fluorescein angiography E. full blood count Answer C, ESR Feedback. Anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy may result from giant cell arteritis (temporal arteritis), typically with a very raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate.

PeerWise in Cardiff 2015– 16

Question writing

Question answering

PeerWise