Widening Participation in Medicine: Conferences Build Confidence? [Letter] [PDF]
Advances in Medical Education and Practice, 2021 Rachel Wei Ying Tan, Marissa Wen Koh Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UKCorrespondence: Rachel Wei Ying TanImperial College London, South Kensington Campus, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, SW7 2AZ ...
Tan RWY, Koh MW
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Exploring the potentials and pitfalls of work experience and widening participation through narrative interviews [PDF]
BMC Medical EducationBackground Applicant work experience (WE) is a non-academic criteria considered by many medical schools in their admissions processes. Concerns have been raised within the literature that access to some WE opportunities may be more elusive for students ...
Alice Green, Dawn Jackson, Derek Ward
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Widening interest, widening participation: factors influencing school students’ aspirations to study medicine [PDF]
BMC Medical Education, 2018 Background Under-representation of some socio-economic groups in medicine is rooted in under-representation of those groups in applications to medical school. This study aimed to explore what may deter school-age children from applying to study medicine.
Alexander J. Martin +6 more
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Widening Participation in Medicine: A Medical Student Perspective [Letter] [PDF]
Advances in Medical Education and Practice, 2021 Jack McAlinden, Benjamin Atkins, Catrin Masson Faculty of Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UKCorrespondence: Jack McAlinden Email jm16193@bristol.ac.uk View the original paper by Dr Ryan and ...
McAlinden J, Atkins B, Masson C
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Quantitative Analysis of Challenges Encountered by UK Widening Participation Medical Students in Comparison With Their Non-Widening Participation Peers [PDF]
Journal of Medical Education and Curricular DevelopmentOBJECTIVES Few studies have captured the experiences of widening participation (WP) medical students, and none have compared their experiences to their non-WP peers.
Krishna Chaitanya Ravulapalli +3 more
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Challenges In Widening Participation Outreach: Is Enough Being Done To Tackle The Under-Representation Of Low-Income Students In Medicine? [PDF]
Advances in Medical Education and Practice, 2019 Akinyemi Apampa,1 Angela Kubacki,2 Utkarsh Ojha,1 Jinpo Xiang1 1Faculty of Medicine, St George’s University of London, London, UK; 2Institute of Medical and Biomedical Education, St George’s University of London, London, UKCorrespondence ...
Apampa A, Kubacki A, Ojha U, Xiang J
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“I’d keep going until somebody said no and nobody ever said no”: exploring identity-strengths amongst medical students from widening participation backgrounds [PDF]
Frontiers in MedicineBackgroundWidening participation is an important consideration in medicine, which has been historically elitist. Despite the evolving evidence base on WP in medicine and advancing of discourse around conceptualizing WP, the identity of students from WP ...
Kathrine Gibson Smith +4 more
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Editorial: Widening participation and access to medicine as a career [PDF]
Frontiers in MedicineDiantha Soemantri +2 more
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An Analysis of the Career Pathway of Clinical Laboratory Scientists: Identifying Access Barriers and Best Practice to Increase Diversity in the Workforce [PDF]
British Journal of Biomedical ScienceWidening participation among the clinical laboratory scientific workforce is essential to meet future needs of healthcare systems. The advantages of more diversity in this clinically pivotal workforce include better decision making, improved diagnostics ...
James A. O’Connor
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Frontiers in Education, 2021 Lecture recording, as a form of technology enhanced learning, has been purported to support equality in Higher Education. The introduction of lecture recording is often controversial, with some lecturers having concerns as to how recordings may change ...
Jill R. D. MacKay +5 more
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