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ArticleAdvances in health sciences education : theory and practice2018

Student learning outcomes, perceptions and beliefs in the context of strengthening research integration into the first year of medical school.

Mayke W C Vereijken, Roeland M van der Rijst, Jan H van Driel, Friedo W Dekker

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Article in Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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Mayke W C VereijkenICLON Graduate School of Teaching, Leiden University, P.O. Box 905, 2300 AX, Leiden, The Netherlands. m.w.c.vereijken@iclon.leidenuniv.nl.
Roeland M van der RijstICLON Graduate School of Teaching, Leiden University, P.O. Box 905, 2300 AX, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Jan H van DrielGraduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, 234 Queensberry Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia.
Friedo W DekkerDepartment of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Centre, P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC, Leiden, The Netherlands.

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Abstract

Research integrated into undergraduate education is important in order for medical students to understand and value research for later clinical practice. Therefore, attempts are being made to strengthen the integration of research into teaching from the first year onwards. First-year students may interpret attempts made to strengthen research integration differently than intended by teachers. This might be explained by student beliefs about learning and research as well as student perceptions of the learning environment. In general, student perceptions of the learning environment play a pivotal role in fostering student learning outcomes. This study aims to determine whether a curriculum change intended to promote research integration fosters student learning outcomes and student perceptions of research integrated into teaching. To serve this purpose, three subsequent cohorts of first-year students were compared, one before and two after a curriculum change. Learning outcomes of these students were measured using scores on a national progress test of 921 students and assessments of a sample of 100 research reports of a first-year student research project. 746 Students filled out the Student Perceptions of Research Integration Questionnaire. The findings suggest that learning outcomes of these students, that is, scores on research related test items of the progress test and the quality of research reports, were better than those of students before the curriculum change.

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CurriculumEducation, Medical, UndergraduateEnvironmentFemaleHumansLearningMaleMotivationNetherlandsPerceptionResearchSchool Admission CriteriaSchools, MedicalStudents, MedicalYoung AdultResearch-teaching nexusStudent learning outcomesUndergraduate educationUndergraduate research

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PMCPMC5882629

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