The hidden curriculum in undergraduate medical education: qualitative study of medical students' perceptions of teaching.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To study medical students' views about the quality of the teaching they receive during their undergraduate training, especially in terms of the hidden curriculum.

Design

Semistructured interviews with individual students.

Setting

One medical school in the United Kingdom.

Participants

36 undergraduate medical students, across all stages of their training, selected by random and quota sampling, stratified by sex and ethnicity, with the whole medical school population as a sampling frame.

Main outcome measures

Medical students' experiences and perceptions of the quality of teaching received during their undergraduate training.

Results

Students reported many examples of positive role models and effective, approachable teachers, with valued c

SUBMITTER: Lempp H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC520997 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature