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Widening participation in medicine: what, why and how?
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Differential attainment within medical education: a systematic review.BMC medical education · 2025Pooled it
- Peer-led mentoring to support racially minoritised applicants to UK public health specialty training: A regional pilot.Public health in practice (Oxford, England) · 2026Article
- Equity in medical school interviews: a cross-sectional analysis of school type, gender, and widening participation status.BMC medical education · 2026Observational
- The power of webinars: expanding diverse female representation and role models in surgery.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- The Medicine Success fund: financial support for widening participation medical students improves wellbeing and increases sense of belonging.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Big data analysis: examination of the relationship between candidates' sociodemographic characteristics and performance in the UK's Membership of the Royal College of Physicians Part 1 examination.Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice · 2025Article
- "Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- How do the post-graduation outcomes of students from gateway courses compare to those from standard entry medicine courses at the same medical schools?BMC medical education · 2023Article
- Changing trends in ethnicity and academic performance: observational cohort data from a UK medical school.BMJ open · 2022Observational
- Which disadvantaged students study medicine? Analysis of an English outreach scheme.Health science reports · 2021Article
- Twelve tips for designing an inclusive curriculum in medical education using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles.MedEdPublish (2016) · 2021Article
- Widening Participation in Medicine: The Impact of Medical Student-Led Conferences for Year 12 Pupils [Letter].Advances in medical education and practice · 2021Article
- Barriers to access, transition and progression of Widening Participation students in UK Medical Schools: The students' perspective.MedEdPublish (2016) · 2021Article
- GP recruitment crisis: the importance of widening participation.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2019Article
- Enhancing Equity in a Widening Participation Scheme for School Students.Journal of medical education and curricular developmentArticle
- Quantitative Analysis of Challenges Encountered by UK Widening Participation Medical Students in Comparison With Their Non-Widening Participation Peers.Journal of medical education and curricular developmentArticle
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Abstract
This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Widening Participation (WP) is 'the process of encouraging underrepresented socioeconomic groups to apply for Higher Education'. This is particularly relevant to medicine, where representation of lower socioeconomic groups is generally poor. Reducing this divide is necessary as socioeconomic diversity enhances social mobility and is likely to improve patient outcomes. This review aims to explore the background to WP, including relevant political theory and also highlights the key methods currently used by medical schools to promote WP. These include pre-application measures (outreach and access to medicine courses), application interventions (contextual data, multiple-mini interviews and situational judgement tests) and post-application measures (foundation courses and ongoing support during medical school). The review also discusses the main criticisms of WP. Finally, it offers recommendations for medical schools regarding the implementation of WP initiatives.
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