Student‐as‐teacher: the creation of a medical student‐driven education elective

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presented. The process of designing, researching and creating screencasts allowed for active student engagement with the material and encouraged students to discuss the topic within their group until they reached consensus in their understanding. The result is that students who create the videos have a deeper and richer understanding of the material and those who watch the videos share in the benefit of student-centred learning. The greatest limitation was the timing of the project within the academic year. Ideally, the screencast creation sessions should be conducted early in the semester to maximise student involvement. In the future, we hope to address the challenges of having more students contribute to the project as well as mitigating the equitable contributions of those already participating. Crowdsourcing and rating the resources is another avenue of future direction, as is creating assessment tasks focused on video tutorials as the assessable item. We also hope to create a permanent video library that will grow over sequential cohorts and add to a communal learning resource made by the students for the students.