Reconceptualizing student engagement: Supporting diverse students in medical school through holistic approaches

Blalock, A. Emiko; Noble, Chelsea E.; Chinchilla, Jennifer P.; Flores, Antonio; Lepe, Paola R.

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“…In this LQR, we illustrated how the pandemic shaped the formation of social ties for a cohort of women in their rst two-years of medical school. While literature about the impact of the pandemic on medical students has been growing (Blalock et al, 2021;Ferrel & Ryan, 2020;Harries et al, 2021;Kim et al, 2020), what is missing are stories about the ebbs and ows of forming personal and professional social ties, which are critical components of persisting for women in medicine. Furthermore, we used the pandemic as a device to understand the larger spatial context, examining the barriers or facilitators, pathways and interruptions, to social tie formation.…”

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Together but separate: A longitudinal study of how spatial context shapes the formation of social ties of women medical students

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2024

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Developing and maintaining connections and relations with others, or what we refer to as the formation of social ties, may strengthen medical students’ sense of belonging in medical school. Social ties play a particularly important role for women medical students as the medical field remains largely dominated by masculine norms. However, forming social ties remains challenging for women in medicine. This study used the COVID-19 pandemic to examine how women medical students navigated the spatial contexts of medical school to form social ties. Using longitudinal qualitative research and narrative inquiry, it describes how 17 women medical students formed social ties during the early stages of COVID-19. Beginning in fall 2020, during the first two-years of medical school, the participants 1) described how personal social ties were deterred from forming in early experiences of medical school; 2) shared experiences that promoted a sense of community bonding during middle and later periods; and 3) expressed limitations of access to the formation of professional social ties throughout their first two-years. This study has important implications for understanding ways spatial contexts, access to physical connections, and the mental and emotional spaces play roles in social tie formation for women medical students and how longitudinal qualitative research can narrate these changes through time.

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Together but separate: A longitudinal study of how spatial context shapes the formation of social ties of women medical students

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2024

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Reconceptualizing student engagement: Supporting diverse students in medical school through holistic approaches

Abstract: This article illustrates the important role family and community play in students’ sense of belonging, and the need for student services to look beyond the college campus to support student engagement.

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Together but separate: A longitudinal study of how spatial context shapes the formation of social ties of women medical students

Together but separate: A longitudinal study of how spatial context shapes the formation of social ties of women medical students

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