Language of Medical Instruction in Palestine: A Mixed Method Approach of Students' Perceptions.

ABSTRACT: This mixed method study explores medical students' perceptions and attitudes regarding the language(s) of medical instruction in two Palestinian universities. The researcher aimed to identify the way medical students look at the language of medical education as well as the merits and drawbacks of the language(s) used in medical instruction. A 25-item descriptive, online questionnaire was built to explore the way university students evaluate and perceive the medium of medical instruction at the Faculty of Medicine. To complement and inform the quantitative findings, fifty-five students from each university were randomly selected, and their responses to an open question about the merits and drawbacks of the language(s) were analyzed using MAXQDA. Of the too many medical students enrolled in

SUBMITTER: Jabali O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9348932 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature