Exploring the preconception of the first year of medical students on medicine before entering medical schoolopen access
- Authors
- Kang, Ye Ji; Hwang, Jun Soo; Lin, Yanyan; Lee, Hyo Jeong; Han, Sang Yun; Kim, Do Hwan
- Issue Date
- Oct-2021
- Publisher
- Korean Society of Medical Education
- Keywords
- Preconception; Undergraduate medical education; Content analysis
- Citation
- Korean Journal of Medical Education, v.33, no.4, pp.369 - 379
- Indexed
- SCOPUS
KCI
- Journal Title
- Korean Journal of Medical Education
- Volume
- 33
- Number
- 4
- Start Page
- 369
- End Page
- 379
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/140760
- DOI
- 10.3946/kjme.2021.205
- ISSN
- 2005-727X
- Abstract
- Purpose
First-year students can form a preconception based on life experiences before entering college and identifying learners’ existing characteristics can be useful foundation data for curriculum development. This study examines what preconceptions freshman students had about medicine before entering medical school.
Methods
A total of 110 first-year students were asked about what preconceptions they had about “medicine”. A total of 1,124 data were used in the content analysis method.
Results
The results were extracted into 5, and 12 twelve categories. On the theme of “scientific discipline”, the knowledge students had about general health was based on scant expertise and little evidence. Students perceived medicine as Western and scientific, considering Korean traditional medicine as unscientific. Students believed that “medical practice” should be a “disease treatment” and “patient-centered” approach rather than a “social responsibility”. In “the role of the doctor”, students were concerned about the doctor's being financially stable on the positive side, and about the high-intensity workload on the negative side. In “medical education”, students believed that studying medicine would be “hard and difficult” because of the “importance of memorizing” and “extensive study load”. In “specialty stereotype”, students had biases that were mostly concentrated on “psychiatry” and “surgery”
Conclusion
Perception of “medicine” has been revealed to a varied range of themes, but some have been inaccurate or unrealistic. These prejudices and groundless beliefs have a gap with the learning outcomes that students should achieve in the curriculum, and these preconceptions seem to have been influenced by South Korea’s unique cultural context.
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