The organization of the 'Little Medic' project in the opinions of teachers - group tutors
The organization of the 'Little Medic' project in the opinions of teachers - group tutors

Summary/Abstract: The ‘Little Medic’ project has been carried out at Poznan University of Medical Sciences for six years. It enjoys great popularity.Every year, about 400 pupils from primary schools from Poznan and the surrounding area in the age of 6–12 participate in it.The study aims to present the organizational specificity of the ‘Little Medic’ project, and the opinions about it expressed byteachers participating in the project with their students. At the end of each academic year, teachers take part in an anonymoussurvey summarizing and assessing the project.The first part of the article presents the method of the ‘Little Medic’ project organization. In particular, it describes the elements distinguishing the project from other children’s universities in Poland. The second part presents the analysis of evaluationdata collected during the six years of the project.Long experience in running classes for children as part of the ‘Little Medic’ project allows for conclusions about the usefulnessand innovativeness of this form of lesson conduct, and the survey results confirm the high level of teachers’ satisfaction with theproposed way of organizing classes.

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