Experiences and perspectives of chiropractic students graduating from an alternate admission track plan.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study explored self-reported experiences of alternate admission track plan (AATP) students who completed a chiropractic training program at a US chiropractic college.

Methods

Our institution conducted semistructured exit interviews with 16 graduating AATP students. Our consensus-drafted open-ended interview questions probed in-depth for these students' experience throughout the training program, with national board exams, their personal characteristics, their satisfaction with the training program generally, and with the AATP program specifically. We employed a content analysis to identify themes and patterns of responses across the blinded deidentified interview transcripts. We used a combination of deductive coding based on our interview guides, and inductiv

SUBMITTER: Strutin NB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8895842 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature