It is the faculty's role and responsibility to provide a suitable learning environment, to select relevant health-care problems, to design appropriate learning resources, and to facilitate and support learning. The process is greatly influenced by constructive feedback from the students. There are a number of educational roles for faculty members. Co-Tutors Tutors work with small groups of students to facilitate the learning process. It is the role of the tutor to help students in the analysis of specially designed health-care problems, rather than to be responsible for conveying specific knowledge.
Tutors help students learn in the tutorial setting.
Initially they may take a more active role as students learn how to identify important concepts and issues arising from the problems, synthesize them into a problem formulation, set goals and objectives, plan the use of resources, and then synthesize and consolidate their learning. Students soon become quite proficient with less guidance needed as their skills develop. Tutors are familiar with the general and specific learning objectives of the module. They can help students select problems to study as a group to best match their backgrounds and goals. Tutors are aware of the range of resources available so that they can advise their students on study approaches appropriate to their needs and objectives.