NDLI: Effects of summer internship and follow-up distance mentoring programs on middle and high school student perceptions and interest in health careers

Content Provider	Springer Nature : BioMed Central
Author	Fernandez-Repollet, Emma Locatis, Craig De Jesus-Monge, Wilfredo E. Maisiak, Richard Liu, Wei-Li
Abstract	Background Minorities are underrepresented in health professions and efforts to recruit minority students into health careers are considered a way to reduce health disparities. There is little research about the effectiveness of these programs, other than satisfaction. This study aimed to measure program effects on student understanding of and interest in health careers. Methods Students took a career interest inventory, completed a scale measuring their self-reported understanding and interest in health careers, and wrote essays about health careers before and after completing a 1 week on campus internship on health careers and after a 9 month follow up distance mentoring program where they continued to interact with university faculty by videoconference about career options. Changes in inventory, scale, and essay scores were analyzed for changes over time using Wilcoxon and Mann-Whitney tests. Results Inventory scores were unchanged over time, but scale and essay scores trended upward significantly post internship and mentoring. Conclusion Health career education and mentoring programs can positively affect student knowledge of health careers and their attitudes about them. The study’s methods extend measures of program impact beyond satisfaction.
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Page Count	6
Starting Page	1
File Format	HTM / HTML
ISSN	14726920
DOI	10.1186/s12909-018-1205-3
Journal	BMC Medical Education
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	18
Language	English
Publisher	BioMed Central
Publisher Date	2018-05-02
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Medical Education Theory of Medicine Bioethics Health career education Distance mentoring Health disparities Minority students Theory of Medicine/Bioethics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Medicine
Journal Impact Factor	2.7/2023
5-Year Journal Impact Factor	3.4/2023

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