Table 1.

Skills lab student-tutor base-line characteristics

Gender	Female = 8 (88.9%), male = 1 (11.1%)
Age	M = 24.1 (SD = 1.8)
Semester	M = 6.7 (SD = 1.8)
Subject	Medicine = 8
	Nursing education = 1
Months of experience as a skills lab tutor	M = 6.8 (SD = 3.4)
Prior areas of working as a skills lab tutor other than Internal Medicine	Pediatrics = 5
	Surgery = 1
	ENT = 1
Previous training	Paramedics = 1
	Health and nursing care = 1
	None = 7
Previous studies	Biomedical Sciences = 1
	Biology = 1
	Dentistry = 1
	None = 6
Completed internshipsa	M = 6.5 weeks (SD = 4.4)b
	Radiology = 1
	Orthopedics = 1
	Cardiology = 2
	Neurosurgery = 1
	Visceral Surgery = 1
	Internal medicine = 2
	Gastroenterology = 1
	Ophthalmology = 1

^anot applicable for n = 1 student of Nursing education, ^bduration of completed internships