Electives in the medical curriculum - an opportunity to achieve students' satisfaction?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Electives are perceived by medical students as a valuable, highly regarded experience, allowing them to customize learning experiences and enabling them to early differentiate during medical training. The present work aims to uncover students' major determinants of satisfaction and how they interfere with their future elective choices in order to identify the best approach to implement electives in medical curricula.

Methods

A cross-sectional study was conducted through a written evaluation survey concerning the electives available in the academic year 2015-2016. Our institution provides 106 electives to students from the 2^nd to the 5^th year. Students' satisfaction was assessed through a validated questionnaire with eight sentences expressing

SUBMITTER: Ramalho AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7681969 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature