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BACKGROUND: The process of medical education, particularly in the fast evolving new era of medical metaschools, is a broad and complex issue. Harden role model in learning, in class, with the added subarea of comparative choice of role models; teaching facilitator and teacher's mentor; teacher's assessor and curriculum evaluator; active participator and keeping-up with curriculum; resource consumer/co-creator and medical literature researcher. The ideal student should fulfil the majority if not all of these complementary roles. TAKE-HOME MESSAGE: These 12+1 student's roles are complementary to the 12 roles of the teacher and help reshaping our understanding of today's medical education process.
Karakitsiou et al. (Sun,) studied this question.