NDLI: At the precipice: a prospective exploration of medical students’ expectations of the pre-clerkship to clerkship transition

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Author	Soo, Jason Brett MacLean, Pamela Cave, Marie Therese Oswald, Anna
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Medical learners face many challenging transitions. We prospectively explored students’ perceptions of their upcoming transition to clerkship and their future professional selves. In 2013, 160/165 end-of-second-year medical students wrote narrative reflections and 79/165 completed a questionnaire on their perceptions of their upcoming transition to clerkship. Narratives were separately analyzed by four authors and then discussed to identify a final thematic framework using parsimonious category construction. We identified two overarching themes: (1) “Looking back”: experiences which had helped students feel prepared for clerkship with subthemes focused on of patient care, shadowing, classroom teaching and the pre-clerkship years as foundational knowledge, (2) “Looking forward”: anticipating the clerkship experience and the journey of becoming a physician with subthemes focused on death and dying, hierarchy, work-life balance, interactions with patients, concerns about competency and career choice. Questionnaire data revealed incongruities around expectations of minimal exposure to death and dying, little need for independent study and limited direct patient responsibility. We confirmed that internal transformations are happening in contemplative time even before clerkship. By prospectively exploring pre-clerkship students’ perceptions of the transition to clerkship training we identified expectations and misconceptions that could be addressed with future curricular interventions. While students are aware of and anticipating their learning needs it is not as clear that they realise how much their future learning will depend on their own inner resources. We suggest that more attention be paid to professional identity formation and the development of the physician as a person during these critical transitions.
Starting Page	141
Ending Page	162
Page Count	22
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13824996
Journal	Advances in Health Sciences Education
Volume Number	21
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15731677
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-07-12
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Professional identity formation Undergraduate medical education Transition Continuum Narrative reflective practice Reflection Medical Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Medicine

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