Residents-as-teachers across graduate medical education – expanding into the undergraduate medical curriculum

We read with great interest the article by Al Achkar et al highlighting the importance of residents-as-teachers (RaT) programs.1 The increasing use of RaT instruction resonated with us from a medical student perspective, as a program that should be adapted and implemented as early as medical school to allow students to develop key teaching skills as well as enhance their own learning. The importance of teaching has been recognized by the UK General Medical Council (GMC) for many years; however, it still only forms a small part of the current undergraduate curriculum with few medical schools in the UK integrating structured formal training.