You Are Not Alone: A Medical Student Lead, Near-Peer Program to Support Preclinical Medical Students Remediating Examinations.
5 affiliations
- 1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH 44106 USA.
- 2The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH 43210 USA.
- 3Department of Biomedical Education and Anatomy, Division of Anatomy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210 USA.
- 4Department of Pathology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210 USA.
- 5Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Nationwide Children's Hospital, J0359 700 Children's Drive, Columbus, OH 43205 USA.
Abstract
You Are Not Alone (YANA) is a student-faculty partnership that supports preclinical medical students in academic difficulty who need to remediate a final summative assessment. YANA members are students who previously remediated examinations and confidentially engage in shared storytelling and empathic listening to meet the student in difficulty where they are. The goals of YANA are to ameliorate the isolation these students commonly feel and to reframe remediation as part of the learning process. Here we describe YANA's workflow and impact. We believe other schools could form such a group to enhance student support as a complement to school-based resources.Supplementary information
The online version contains supplementary material available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-026-02880-8.
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BibTeX
@article{kolibar2026alone,
title = {{You Are Not Alone: A Medical Student Lead, Near-Peer Program to Support Preclinical Medical Students Remediating Examinations.}},
author = {Francisca Kolibar and Mehak Chawla and Gavin Wu and Anne Hinze and Christopher R Pierson},
journal = {Medical science educator},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.1007/s40670-026-02880-8},
url = {https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42968838},
note = {CC BY},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - You Are Not Alone: A Medical Student Lead, Near-Peer Program to Support Preclinical Medical Students Remediating Examinations.
AU - Francisca Kolibar
AU - Mehak Chawla
AU - Gavin Wu
AU - Anne Hinze
AU - Christopher R Pierson
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/15
JO - Medical science educator
DO - 10.1007/s40670-026-02880-8
UR - https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42968838
AB - You Are Not Alone (YANA) is a student-faculty partnership that supports preclinical medical students in academic difficulty who need to remediate a final summative assessment. YANA members are students who previously remediated examinations and confidentially engage in shared storytelling and empathic listening to meet the student in difficulty where they are. The goals of YANA are to ameliorate the isolation these students commonly feel and to reframe remediation as part of the learning process. Here we describe YANA's workflow and impact. We believe other schools could form such a group to enhance student support as a complement to school-based resources.Supplementary information The online version contains supplementary material available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-026-02880-8.
SN - 2156-8650
ER -