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Advancing Medical Education By Optimizing The Use Of Formal And Informal Curriculum Resources, Ziana Bagot
Advancing Medical Education By Optimizing The Use Of Formal And Informal Curriculum Resources, Ziana Bagot
Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023
Current and aspiring medical school students are inundated by curriculum resources. To optimize the curriculum resources that are offered in medical education, the present work examines both institutionally and commercially developed resources from the lens of various stakeholders through three separate, yet related, studies. The first study, a scoping review, synthesizes and recognizes gaps in scholarship regarding obstacles that underrepresented, pre-medical students encounter in applying to medical school, specifically focusing on the impact of access to commercial test preparation resources. A review of existing literature regarding this population's medical school admission difficulties yielded a majority of non-empirical, deficit-focused articles that …