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Examining The Relationship Between Medical Student Satisfaction And Academic Performance In A Pre-Clinical, Flipped-Classroom Curriculum, Matthew J. Mackey
Examining The Relationship Between Medical Student Satisfaction And Academic Performance In A Pre-Clinical, Flipped-Classroom Curriculum, Matthew J. Mackey
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Medical schools are tasked with the responsibility of facilitating the acquisition of the specific vernacular, skill set, and reasoning capabilities of a physician for a group of individuals with a mélange of diverse experiences. Determining the best methods to train physicians is thus a challenge for those in medical education. Starting with the class of 2021, flipped classroom teaching and learning activities dominate Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine’s (WSU-BSOM) curriculum for MS1s and MS2s. This new curriculum is under constant evaluation to make sure it is best serving Boonshoft students. However, evaluating student evaluations on course satisfaction is …
Medical Students' Understanding Of The Nature Of Science, Garrett V. Kandell
Medical Students' Understanding Of The Nature Of Science, Garrett V. Kandell
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A questionnaire pertaining to the nature of science was distributed to 120 students matriculating into a midwestern medical school. Questions were so designed to understand student’s ideas on the nature of science and research, their previous involvement in research, and how they see research playing a role in their lives as future physicians. This study was performed to gain a more accurate understanding of what medical students perceive the nature of science and research is along with possible benefits throughout their careers There is a division in literature concerning the benefits of research in medical school and its ability to …
The Relationship Between Advanced Degrees And Performance On Usmle Step 1, Martha E. Orozco Cortes
The Relationship Between Advanced Degrees And Performance On Usmle Step 1, Martha E. Orozco Cortes
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While previous studies have analyzed the relationship of pre-admission factors on USMLE Step 1 scores few studies have looked at the effects obtaining a graduate degree prior to medical school matriculation. Therefore, this study sought to determine if there was an advantage between obtaining a graduate degree before medical school when it came to step 1 board scores. This retrospective study analyzed step 1 scores and medical school application data from 718 students who matriculated at a public midwestern medical school between 2014 and 2016. A combination of analyzes of variance, chi-square tests, and multiple regression analyses were used. When …
Success Of Non-Traditional Students In Medical School, Rebecca A. Nowak
Success Of Non-Traditional Students In Medical School, Rebecca A. Nowak
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The demographics of United States medical schools are changing to include an increasing number of older students, men and women who have switched careers into medicine, those with post-graduate degrees before starting medical school, and other diverse backgrounds. These “non-traditional” students today are still a minority (an annual questionnaire sent out to matriculating medical students by the Association of American Medical Colleges last year showed as many as 90% of students knew they wanted to study medicine by the end of undergraduate1) but make up a growing slice of the demographics of current U.S. medical students. Much research …
Academic Success In Medical School For Prematriculation Program Students—A Retrospective Analysis Of Year 1 Course Exams At Boonshoft School Of Medicine At Wright State University, James E. Elliott
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As medical schools are striving to enroll the most diverse candidates to their schools, the medical schools have developed enriching prematriculation programs to their diverse candidates to ensure that all students are prepared for the first year of medical school. The prematriculation programs attempt to build in academic content with study techniques to help students become confident in their learning in the first weeks of school but also in the last months of their first year when they can still employ various study tools learned in the summer from the prematriculation program. However, with the implementation of these programs, there …