Understanding medical students' transformative experiences of early preclinical international rural placement over a 20-year period.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Rural placements are an important component of rural medical education programs seeking to develop rural practice pathways for medical students. These placements are usually domestic, but James Cook University in Australia developed an international rural placement program in the first half of the medical course that was funded through bursaries. This study explores how the international rural placement helped to shape the lives (personal development and learning) of the participants, using Transformational Learning Theory as a framework for identifying and describing the transformational elements, process and impact of the program.

Methods

Sixty-five students received a bursary for an international rural placement between 2001-2019. All were contacted by email

SUBMITTER: Malau-Aduli BS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9427436 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature