Medical students' perception of learning from patient encounters in primary health care; a qualitative interview study.

ABSTRACT: Clinical practice gives medical students opportunities to develop clinical skills and to gain insight into their future profession as a physician. Students in the medical programme at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden had clinical practice in primary health care in nine of their 11 semesters. The aim of this study was to explore medical students' perceptions of learning from patient encounters in a primary health care context. The study was a qualitative inductive interview study. The 21 participating medical students were from their 3rd, 4th and 5th (final year) year of the study programme. A semi-structured interview guide was used. The data analysis was performed with qualitative content analysis. The overarching theme of the study was: The individual patient encounters are the key to lea

SUBMITTER: Ohman E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10709937 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature