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Table 1.

Search Terms and Keywords Used in the Literature Search

PubMed	Embase, ERIC Databases and MEDLINE
In PubMed the search was conducted using search terms: “near peer teaching”[Title/Abstract] OR “peer assisted learning”[Title/Abstract] OR “peer mentor”[Title/Abstract] OR “peer tutor”[Title/Abstract] OR “peer teach*”[Title/Abstract] combined with search terms “Education, medical, undergraduate”[MeSH Terms] OR “undergraduate medical”[Title/Abstract] using the Boolean operator AND	The search on Embase, ERIC databases and MEDLINE was conducted using search terms: “exp Medical school” or “exp Medical student” combined with search terms “near peer teaching.mp” OR “peer assisted learning.mp” OR “peer mentor.mp” OR “peer tutor.mp” OR “peer teach$.mp” using the Boolean operator AND.

PubMed

Embase, ERIC Databases and MEDLINE

In PubMed the search was conducted using search terms: “near peer teaching”[Title/Abstract] OR “peer assisted learning”[Title/Abstract] OR “peer mentor”[Title/Abstract] OR “peer tutor”[Title/Abstract] OR “peer teach*”[Title/Abstract] combined with search terms “Education, medical, undergraduate”[MeSH Terms] OR “undergraduate medical”[Title/Abstract] using the Boolean operator AND

The search on Embase, ERIC databases and MEDLINE was conducted using search terms: “exp Medical school” or “exp Medical student” combined with search terms “near peer teaching.mp” OR “peer assisted learning.mp” OR “peer mentor.mp” OR “peer tutor.mp” OR “peer teach$.mp” using the Boolean operator AND.

Notes: *Truncation symbol in PubMed. $ Truncation symbol in Embase, ERID databases and MEDLINE. exp = “explosion”, meaning this search not only look for the subject term selected but also many related subjects. mp = “multi-purpose”, meaning this search look at several fields at once, including title, abstract, keyword, original title and heading word.