Challenges Facing First-Generation College Graduates in Medical School: A Qualitative Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

First-generation (FG) medical students remain underrepresented in medicine despite ongoing national efforts to increase diversity; understanding the challenges faced by this student population is essential to building holistic policies, practices, and learning environments that promote professional actualization. Although FG students have been extensively studied in the undergraduate literature, there is little research investigating how FG students experience medical education or opportunities for educators to intervene.

Objective

To explore challenges that FG students experience in undergraduate medical education and identify opportunities to improve foundational FG support.

Design, setting, and participants

This qualitative study was conducted using an o

SUBMITTER: Havemann C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10719755 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature