Background: The BCMP degree (Clinical Associates) was introduced in South Africa in 2008 and at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2009. This first cohort of students produced challenges and questions around teaching and the learning environment. The clinical experience was mainly in district and regional hospitals, not tertiary academic hospitals, with clinical learning supervised by staff at these hospitals. Faculty therefore relied on student portfolios to ascertain learning and experiences in the clinical setting. This included reflective journals. Aim: To identify the issues that third year BCMP students in the clinical areas choose to write about in their reflective journals. Methods: The journals of 24 BCMP students written during the first two clinical rotations of their final (third) year were included in a retrospective study. Thematic content analysis of these journals was employed to examine emerging themes and subthemes. Each student’s narrative pieces were then further analysed in detail. Many of the journal entries contained more than one reflection and each of these reflections was analysed and the relevant themes and subthemes were identified. Results: The reflections show that students focused on staff and health care systems issues, especially resources, attitudes and work ethic. The majority of these staff and health care related reflections were negative but positive experiences and role models were also identified. There were differences noted between hospitals and rotations, with the paediatric rotation showing the most positive responses, and the emergency rotation the least. Conclusion: The students identified lapses in the health services and health providers which affected patient care. They also recognised positive experiences and role models. This reveals a mismatch between teaching and their clinical experience. These experiences will be used to advise future teaching and research, as well as to provide feedback to the hospitals used for clinical training. Discussions should be held as to ways of reporting these incidents and improving professional standards in the clinical teaching settings.

INTRODUCTION: We sought to evaluate the intentions of Honduran medical students to emigrate or to work in a rural setting, and their association with parental education. METHODS: We performed a cross-sectional, analytic study at a Honduran medical school. Student participants completed a structured questionnaire, which assessed their intentions to emigrate or work in a rural setting after finishing medical school and the highest level of education achieved by their parents. We calculated crude and adjusted prevalence ratios with their respective 95% confidence intervals. RESULTS: Of 868 surveys distributed, 564 were completed. The mean age of the participants was 21 (standard deviation 3) years, and 62.2% were female. Of the respondents, 16.6% intended to emigrate to work and 11.2% intended to work in a rural setting. Higher paternal education (i.e., technical, university and postgraduate training) was associated with a higher rate of intention to emigrate. Students whose fathers underwent postgraduate education were less likely to intend to work in a rural setting. For maternal education, only the postgraduate level was associated with the outcomes in some of the tested models. CONCLUSION: The frequency of students intending to emigrate was relatively low. However, the frequency of students being willing to work in rural settings was also low. Students whose parents had higher levels of education were more likely to intend to work abroad and less likely to intend to work in a rural area. These factors should be considered in medical schools' selection processes to improve retention and ensure adequate distribution of physicians.

Thesis (doctoral)--Tampereen yliopisto, 1985. / Extra t.p. with thesis statement inserted. Summary in English. Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-169).

Thesis (M. Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2009. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 103 p. : ill. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 52-66).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Virginia, 2000. / Spine title: Predicting medical student careers. Includes bibliographical references (p. 19-21). Also available online through Digital Dissertations.

Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1980.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1980.

Little research has been published addressing college students’ use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and their attitudes toward CAM. This study measured the prevalence and type of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use among a sample of college students, assessed college students’ attitudes toward CAM, and investigated the relationship between select social-cognitive constructs and demographic variables as predictors of CAM use among the college population. A modified web based survey instrument originally developed by Nowak and Dorman (2008) was used to sample a cohort of college students attending Ball State University in the fall semester of 2011. Findings show high rates of CAM use and an overall positive attitude toward CAM from this sample. Observational learning, outcome expectancies, gender, and age were identified as significant correlates of CAM use. Having a better understanding about college students’ use of CAM and attitudes toward CAM can help impact the future of healthcare services and health education in United States (U.S.) universities. / Fisher Institute for Wellness and Gerontology