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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL EDUCATION
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages 1-6Publisher
INT JOURNAL MEDICAL EDUCATION-IJML
DOI: 10.5116/ijme.5a46.1ccc
Keywords
Resilience; medical students; wellness; well-being; qualitative research
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- Duke-NUS Education Innovation Grant
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Objectives: To improve programs aimed to enhance medical student resiliency, we examined both medical student and faculty advisor perspectives on resiliency-building in an Asian medical school. Methods: In two separate focus groups, a convenience sample of 8 MD-PhD students and 8 faculty advisors were asked to identify strategies for enhancing resilience. Using thematic analysis, two researchers independently examined discussion transcripts and field notes and determined themes through a consensus process. They then compared the themes to discern similarities and differences between these groups. Results: Themes from the student suggestions for increasing resilience included Perspective changes with time and experience, Defining effective advisors, and Individual paths to resiliency. Faculty-identified themes were Structured activities to change student perspectives, Structured teaching of coping strategies, and Institution-wide social support. Students described themselves as individuals building their own resilience path and preferred advisors who were not also evaluators. Faculty, however, suggested systematic, structural ways to increase resilience. Conclusions: Students and advisors identified some common, and many distinct strategies for enhancing medical student resilience. Student/advisor discrepancies may exemplify a cultural shift in Singapore's medical education climate, where students value increased individualism and autonomy in their education. As medical schools create interventions to enhance resilience and combat potential student burnout, they should consider individually-tailored as well as system-wide programs to best meet the needs of their students and faculty.
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