Tutoring

We understand tutoring as a two-way tutor-student relation which aims to support the student’s development, in the broadest sense of the word, but above all young people’s academic competencies.
Tutoring at the Faculty of Medicine aims to broaden the knowledge of the medical profession while showcasing the professional and scientific activities of the doctor. It also involves familiarising the student with hospital or medical facility policies and procedures.
The aim of tutoring is not only to impart knowledge but also to identify opportunities to expand knowledge (i.e. teach the student to think, develop argumentation, make independent decisions, and express opinions). We aim to encourage the student to pursue their interests and thus develop cognitive skills.

In addition to developing the student’s academic and personal competencies, we want the academic teacher-tutor to take care of their well-being. It is primarily about psychological well-being, based on the rationality and purposefulness of action, development, and work towards the benefit of other people or ideas.
The fundamental ways to ensure a good relationship with the student and their well-being are kindness, interest, attention to the student, open-mindedness, development of mutual trust, constructive feedback, expressing positive emotions, active listening, and clear communication.

Guiding principles of tutoring at the Faculty of Medicine:

• Each academic teacher (with a very low or zero teaching load) is tasked with supervising 1 to 2 students
• They should provide 30 hours of meetings per semester (about 2 hours per week)
• Meetings can be held on Saturdays or Sundays and last longer.
• Meeting dates should be arranged in consultation with the student.
• Each meeting should be recorded in the "meeting logbook" (Appendix 1)
• The student is required to submit a tutoring report at the end of the semester to the Dean for Student and Teaching Affairs
• It is important for the tutor and the student to agree on the terms of tutoring, which could be determined by asking and answering questions such as:

1. What do we expect of ourselves?
2. What are we committing ourselves to?
3. What principles will we follow?
4. How will we work together?
5. How will we monitor our work?
6. What forms of contact do we agree to outside of our meetings? (e-mail, text messages – if so, at what times)
7. How do we schedule our meetings?