Role of social comparison in preparedness for practice as a junior doctor in Singapore: a longitudinal qualitative study

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To date, most research on medical graduates’ preparedness for practice has conceptualised preparedness as something possessed by the individual. However, new doctors work within social settings with other people and, given this, we argue that preparedness has a social and comparative dimension. The aim of this paper is to explore medical students’/graduates’ self-assessments of their preparedness for practice using the lens of social comparison theory.

Setting

We invited medical students from one of Singapore’s three medical schools who were in their final-year Student Assistantship Programme to participate in semi-structured interviews, and follow-up interviews 6 months later when they were working as junior doctors. Data was collected from two cohorts, in 201

SUBMITTER: Chen S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9454008 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature