Tomorrow's Doctors and Nurses: Peer assisted learning.

The article reports on the introduction of peer assisted learning activities (PAL) to encourage students to develop their skills in teaching, learning, and assessing and to engage in co-operative learning in Great Britain. PAL is common to pre-school, primary, secondary, tertiary and work-based education. The medical school introduced the first PAL initiative in the year 2000 and, with the support of teaching staff and students.