Increased student engagement in the education programme is an important development in medical education and this has been given an added momentum by the COVID-19 pandemic. On today's agenda is the shift from the student as a customer and a passive recipient of the teaching and education offering to one of a student engaged as a partner in the programme. The implications of this move in practice are at times difficult and at times uncertain. Ambiguities can be clarified by considering the roles

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... of the student in the engagement process. Seven roles can be identified. -Information processor and seeker -Facilitator of learning -Curriculum collaborator -Assessor of competence -Teacher and mentor -Professional -Manager The roles are reflected in the different approaches to student engagement, in the extent to which students have a voice in decision making, and in the nature of a student/teacher partnership.