Peer education is an effective way of education and training for medical students.It has the functions of example,communication,incentive and restraint,mutual assistance and growth,which is conducive to the training of excellent medical talents in the new era.At present,there are some problems in the peer education of medical students,such as imperfect peer model selection mechanism,insufficient publicity and promotion efforts,and insufficient innovative education methods.Medical universities need to adopt strategies such as scientific selection and cultivating peer models,strengthening the publicity and guidance of peer education,and strengthening the education of model classification,so as to promote the realization of peer education function of medical students.
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