Medical students as global citizens: a qualitative study of medical students' views on global health teaching within the undergraduate medical curriculum.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is increasing interest in global health teaching among medical schools and their students. Schools in the UK and internationally are considering the best structure, methods and content of global health courses. Academic work in this area, however, has tended to either be normative (specifying what global health teaching ought to look like) or descriptive (of a particular intervention, new module, elective, etc.).

Methods

While a number of studies have explored student perspectives on global health teaching, these have often relied on tools such as questionnaires that generate little in-depth evidence. This study instead used qualitative methods to explore medical student perspectives on global health in the context of a new global health module established i

SUBMITTER: Blum N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6543666 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature