Effect of the new Bologna bachelor degree on career considerations of medical students in one medical school

Broek, Sjoukje van den; Muller, Barbara S.; Dekker, Nicky; Bootsma, A. L.; Cate, Olle ten

doi:10.3109/0142159x.2010.498487

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“…Each year, 350 students enrol in the medical programme. The (vertically integrated) medical curriculum consists of a three-year preclinical (bachelor) and a three-year clinical (master) phase [21]. This study pertains to the performance of students in the bachelor phase.…”

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Bachelor completion and dropout rates of selected, rejected and lottery-admitted medical students in the Netherlands

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Background: Evidence for the effectiveness of the selection of medical students is weak. This study aimed to examine the added value of a two-step selection procedure (first step non-academic, second step academic tests) to a pre-university GPA-based lottery procedure. Because previous research has suggested that participation in selection (regardless of the outcome) is a predictor of study success, this study is the first to include students who initially applied for selection, then refrained from (actively) participating in selection and were eventually admitted through lottery. Methods: Bachelor completion and dropout rates of selected (n = 416) and lottery-admitted students from four cohorts (2006-2009) were compared using logistic regression analysis. Four groups of lottery-admitted students were distinguished: students who were rejected after step 2 (n = 57), were rejected after step 1 (n = 169), withdrew during selection step 1 (n = 42) and students who only applied for lottery (n = 366). Covariates included gender, age, pre-university GPA and cohort. Results: There was a significant association between admission group and obtaining a bachelor degree in three years. Selected students were more likely to obtain a bachelor degree within three years (64.2% versus 51.6%; OR = 1.7) or four years (81.5% versus 74.3%; OR = 1.6) than students who only applied to a lottery (p < 0.05); selected students also seemed more likely to obtain all Year-1 course credits than students who withdrew during step 1 (40.4% versus 21.4%; OR = 2.3; p < 0.05). We found no significant association between dropout and admission groups. Students rejected at step 1 or 2 did not perform significantly different from selected students on any of the outcome measures. Conclusions: The findings indicated that students at risk for study delay in the preclinical phase in our context were more likely to refrain from applying to a demanding selection procedure when a less demanding alternative was available. We found no significant associations between the non-academic and academic selection steps and bachelor completion and dropout rates. These findings suggest that the presence of the selection was more important than these specific selection components. In follow-up research, we plan to investigate the associations between the admission groups and outcome measures in the clinical phase.

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“…These differences should still be accounted for when interpreting the results to a specific setting. The recently introduced two-cycle bachelor and master model in some European countries do not seem to have affected student career considerations (Van den Broek et al 2010.…”

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Dynamics of career choice among students in undergraduate medical courses. A BEME systematic review: BEME Guide No. 33

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Our results support that medical career decisions are formed by a matching of perceptions of specialty characteristics with personal needs. However, the process of medical career decision-making is not yet fully understood. Besides identifying possible predictors, future research should focus on detecting interrelations between hypothesized predictors and identify the determinants and interrelations at the various stages of the medical career decision-making process.

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“…There are differences in quality assurance systems, processes and outcomes between universities in home and host countries. There is no global credit transfer system although some moves have been made recently to harmonise the systems in Europe (Van Den Broek, Muller, Dekker, Bootsma, & Cate, 2010) and more recently extended to Latin America (Scott, 2011). Regardless of international differences, students are unable to assess the value of the educational experience in advance of the experience (Mourad, Ennew, & Kortam, 2011).…”

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Students as global citizens: strategies for mobilizing studies abroad

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Brennan

2012

Journal of Marketing for Higher Education

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Students as global citizens: strategies for mobilising studies abroadUniversities globally are increasingly seeking to improve the international mobility of their students. There are several latent benefits that accrue to a university whose students and staff actively participate in international exchange programs. Essentially this can lead to an increase in the university's international reputation, opportunities for benchmarking against best practices, capacity to develop international relationships, diversity of student population with all the benefits that accrue from diversity and access to potential recruitment markets. In this paper we review extant literature to elicit the range of practical factors that play a role in the decision of students to study abroad. We also discuss results from a recent student survey that revealed students' preferences for international work placements.

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Effect of the new Bologna bachelor degree on career considerations of medical students in one medical school

Abstract: Awarding a bachelor degree in the BaMa structure does not encourage students to interrupt or discontinue their medical study, to transfer to another master programme or to transfer to another medical school.

Cited by 8 publications

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Bachelor completion and dropout rates of selected, rejected and lottery-admitted medical students in the Netherlands

Bachelor completion and dropout rates of selected, rejected and lottery-admitted medical students in the Netherlands

Dynamics of career choice among students in undergraduate medical courses. A BEME systematic review: BEME Guide No. 33

Students as global citizens: strategies for mobilizing studies abroad

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