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ArticleKorean journal of medical education2017

Research trends in studies of medical students' characteristics: a scoping review.

Sung Soo Jung, Kwi Hwa Park, HyeRin Roh, So Jung Yune, Geon Ho Lee, Kyunghee Chun

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Article in Korean journal of medical education, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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6 authors.

Sung Soo JungDepartment of Internal Medicine, Chungnam National University College of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-7990-3066
Kwi Hwa ParkDepartment of Medical Education, Gachon University College of Medicine, Incheon, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-0008-2400
HyeRin RohDepartment of Medical Education and the Institute of Medical Humanities, Inje University College of Medicine, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-3879-709X
So Jung YuneDepartment of Medical Education, Pusan National University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-2567-0444
Geon Ho LeeDepartment of Family Medicine, Catholic University of Daegu School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-0696-3804
Kyunghee ChunHead Office for Educational Innovation, Tongmyong University, Busan, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-5351-0376

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate domestic and international research trends in studies of medical students' characteristics by using the scoping review methods. This study adopted the scoping review to assess papers on the characteristics of medical students. The procedure of research was carried out according to the five steps of the scoping review. The full texts of 100 papers are obtained and are read closely, after which suitable 88 papers are extracted by us for this research. The review is mapped by the year of the study, source, location, author, research design, research subject, objective, and key results. The frequency is analyzed by using Microsoft Excel and SPSS. We found 70 papers (79.5%) on a single medical school, 15 (17.0%) on multiple medical schools, and three (3.4%) on mixed schools, including medical and nonmedical schools. Sixty-nine (79.5%) were cross-sectional studies and 18 (20.5%) were longitudinal studies. Eighty-two papers (93.2%) adopted questionnaire surveys. We summarized research trends of studies on medical students in Korea and overseas by topic, and mapped them into physical health, mental health, psychological characteristics, cognitive characteristics, social characteristics, and career. This study provides insights into the future directions of research for the characteristics of medical students.

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Career ChoiceCognitionHealth StatusMental HealthSocial BehaviorStudents, MedicalHumansRepublic of KoreaSchools, MedicalMedical schoolsMedical studentsReview

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PMID28870017
PMCPMC5583429

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