Student perspectives on barriers to performance for black and minority ethnic graduate-entry medical students: a qualitative study in a West Midlands medical school.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore graduate-entry medical students experiences of undergraduate training in the context of academic underperformance of medical students from ethnic minority backgrounds.

Design

Qualitative study using semi-structured focus groups.

Setting

A West Midlands medical school.

Participants

24 graduate-entry MBChB students were recruited using volunteer and snowball sampling; all students self-identified as being from Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) backgrounds.

Results

BME students reported facing a range of difficulties, throughout their undergraduate medical training, that they felt impeded their learning and performance. Their relationships with staff and clinicians, though also identified as facilitators to learning, were also perceived t

SUBMITTER: Morrison N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6924783 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature