A comparison of medical students' perceptions of their initial basic clinical training placements in 'new' and established teaching hospitals
| Autor: | Celia Popovic, Edward Scully, Jayne Parry, Jonathan Mathers |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Students Medical media_common.quotation_subject education Specialty Psychological intervention Education Intervention (counseling) Perception Teaching and learning center Medicine Humans Hospitals Teaching media_common Programmed Instructions as Topic Medical education Enthusiasm business.industry Learning environment Teaching Clinical Clerkship General Medicine Focus Groups Focus group United Kingdom Female business |
| Zdroj: | Medical teacher. 28(3) |
| ISSN: | 1466-187X |
| Popis: | This study has examined students' perceptions of the factors influencing learning during initial hospital placements and whether differences in perceived experiences were evident between students attending new and established teaching hospitals. Five focus groups were conducted with Year III students at the University of Birmingham Medical School (UBMS): three with students attending three established teaching hospitals and two with students attached to a new teaching hospital (designated as part of the UBMS expansion programme). Extensive variation in student perception of hospital experiences was evident at the level of teaching hospital, teaching firm and individual teacher. Emergent themes were split into two main categories: 'students' perceptions of teaching and the teaching environment' and 'the new hospital learner'. Themes emerging that related to variation in student experience included the amount of structured teaching, enthusiasm of teachers, grade of teachers, specialty of designated firms and the number of students. The new teaching hospital was generally looked upon favourably by students in comparison to established teaching hospitals. Many of the factors influencing student experience relate to themes grouped under the 'new hospital learner', describing the period of adjustment experienced by students during their first encounter with this new learning environment. Interventions to improve student experience might be aimed at organisations and individuals delivering teaching. However, factors contributing to the student experience, such as the competing demand to teaching of heavy clinical workloads, are outside the scope of medical school intervention. In the absence of fundamental change, mechanisms to equip students with 'survival skills' as self-directed hospital learners should also be considered. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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