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ABSTRACT Peer assessment is now an established part of the assessment and examination system for Fifth Year medical students in the Department of Surgery in the University of Queensland. The students respond well to a system in which they are treated as intelligent adults. Peer assessment correlates highly with other segments of the examination, and is a practical method for measuring the achievement of standards acceptable to peers, an educational objective realistically related to medical practice.
Burnett et al. (Mon,) studied this question.