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Tso, Simon Ho Yuen (2017) The graduate-entry medical student : challenges to transition through medical school. MD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
This study aims to make a sociological contribution to understanding the experience of medical students from graduate-entry medicine degree programmes. In this study, I asked the research question ‘what are the challenges experienced by graduate-entry medicine degree programme students during their transition through medical school training?’ Medical students from the University of Warwick Medical School graduate-entry medicine degree programme were invited to take part in this interview-based study. A volunteer sample of 21 medical students took part in a stage one semi-structured one-to-one interview. Fourteen of 21 medical students took part in a follow-up stage two interview between four to thirteen months later. Their interview transcripts were transcribed verbatim and analysed using thematic analysis. Results showed there were three key transition periods within the University of Warwick Medical School’s graduate-entry medicine degree programme. Medical students encountered a range of challenging issues throughout their medical school journey that could be categorised under three conceptual themes: challenges associated with the curriculum, challenges associated with their social role and generic life challenges. Learning, professional identity development and managing coping strategies were the three key challenging issues dominating their transition experience. These challenging issues were in keeping with my findings from literature review on the medical school experience of undergraduate-entry and graduate-entry students. This study has made one original sociological contribution to understanding the professionalism issue about how medical students manage health advice requests from their family and friends. The findings from this study could be useful to educators and medical schools in enhancing their student support services. It could also be useful to prospective and existing medical students in understanding the realities of undertaking a graduate-entry medicine degree programme.
Item Type: | Thesis (MD) | ||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Medical students, Medical education, Medicine -- Study and teaching (Graduate) -- Great Britain, Student adjustment | ||||
Official Date: | September 2017 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | Warwick Medical School | ||||
Thesis Type: | MD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Kidd, Jane, 1957- ; Barnett, M. (Mandy) ; Davies, D. A. (David A.) | ||||
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Extent: | 356 pages : illustrations, charts | ||||
Language: | eng |
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