Patterns of privilege: A total cohort analysis of admission and academic outcomes for Māori, Pacific and non-Māori non-Pacific health professional students

Autor: Erena Wikaire, Papaarangi Reid, Yannan Jiang, Rob Loto, Elana Curtis, Donna Cormack, Louise McMillan
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
Workforce development
020205 medical informatics
Higher education
education
Ethnic group
Māori
Academic success
02 engineering and technology
Indigenous
Education
Cohort Studies
Schools
Health Occupations
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Ethnicity
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering
Humans
Medicine
School Admission Criteria
030212 general & internal medicine
Medicine(all)
Medical education
business.industry
Tertiary education
General Medicine
Achievement
Health professional
Health equity
Pacific
College Admission Test
Family medicine
Workforce
Ethnic minority
Female
Educational Measurement
business
Privilege (social inequality)
New Zealand
Research Article
Cohort study
Zdroj: BMC Medical Education
ISSN: 1472-6920
DOI: 10.1186/s12909-016-0782-2
Popis: Background Tertiary institutions are struggling to ensure equitable academic outcomes for indigenous and ethnic minority students in health professional study. This demonstrates disadvantaging of ethnic minority student groups (whereby Indigenous and ethnic minority students consistently achieve academic outcomes at a lower level when compared to non-ethnic minority students) whilst privileging non-ethnic minority students and has important implications for health workforce and health equity priorities. Understanding the reasons for academic inequities is important to improve institutional performance. This study explores factors that impact on academic success for health professional students by ethnic group. Methods Kaupapa Māori methodology was used to analyse data for 2686 health professional students at the University of Auckland in 2002–2012. Data were summarised for admission variables: school decile, Rank Score, subject credits, Auckland school, type of admission, and bridging programme; and academic outcomes: first-year grade point average (GPA), first-year passed all courses, year 2 – 4 programme GPA, graduated, graduated in the minimum time, and composite completion for Māori, Pacific, and non-Māori non-Pacific (nMnP) students. Statistical tests were used to identify significant differences between the three ethnic groupings. Results Māori and Pacific students were more likely to attend low decile schools (27 % Māori, 33 % Pacific vs. 5 % nMnP, p
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