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Immersion medicine programme for secondary students

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Title
Immersion medicine programme for secondary students
Published in
Clinical Teacher, August 2017
DOI 10.1111/tct.12694
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Paras S Minhas, Nathan Kim, Jayson Myers, Wendy Caceres, Marina Martin, Baldeep Singh

Abstract

Although the proportion of ethnicities representing under-represented minorities in medicine (URM) in the general population has significantly increased, URM enrolment in medical schools within the USA has remained stagnant in recent years. This study sought to examine the effect of an immersion in community medicine (ICM) programme on secondary school students' desire to enter the field of medicine and serve their communities. The authors asked all 69 ICM alumni to complete a 14-question survey consisting of six demographic, four programme and four career questions, rated on a Likert scale of 1 (completely disagree) to 5 (completely agree), coupled with optional free-text questions. Data were analysed using GraphPad prism and nvivo software. A total of 61 students responded, representing a response rate of 88.4 per cent, with a majority of respondents (73.7%) from URM backgrounds. An overwhelming majority of students agreed (with a Likert rating of 4 or 5) that the ICM programme increased their interest in becoming a physician (n = 56, 91.8%). Students reported shadowing patient-student-physician interactions to be the most useful (n = 60, 98.4%), and indicated that they felt that they would be more likely to lead to serving the local community as part of their future careers (n = 52, 85.3%). Of the students that were eligible to apply to medical school (n = 13), a majority (n = 11, 84.6%) have applied to medical school. URM enrolment in medical schools within the USA has remained stagnant in recent years DISCUSSION: Use of a community medicine immersion programme may help encourage secondary students from URM backgrounds to gain the confidence to pursue a career in medicine and serve their communities. Further examination of these programmes may yield novel insights into recruiting URM students to medicine.

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Unknown 20 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Professor > Associate Professor 3 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 10%
Researcher 2 10%
Librarian 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 9 45%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 3 15%
Social Sciences 2 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 5%
Psychology 1 5%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 12 60%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 November 2018.
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#14,605,790
of 25,382,440 outputs
Outputs from Clinical Teacher
#547
of 973 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#159,427
of 327,198 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Clinical Teacher
#9
of 14 outputs
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