The use of student narratives as research substrates
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Jiwa, M.,
Krejany, C.,
Angelides, E.,
Brown, M.,
Clark, R.,
Courtley, P.,
Dao, J.,
Faraj, H.,
Ghandi, M.,
Gordon, M.,
Huang, Y. Z.,
La Spina, C.,
McDermott, L.,
Murphy, N.,
Rattenbury, M.,
Robertson, A.,
Ruehland, H.,
Thomas, W.,
Bownes, S.,
Krones, C.,
Wells, R.,
&
Rocha, G. S.
(2019).
The use of student narratives as research substrates.
Journal of Health Design, 4 (3), 194-204.
Abstract
Supervising medical students to develop a research project can be challenging. Unless a student has prior experience in research, they may struggle to identify a research question that can be addressed by a novice researcher in a time-limited project. At the same time, when a project spans years of the degree, a student who has been offered an “off-the-shelf” idea may lose interest in the project and the assignment can become burdensome. We describe how a cohort of medical students were encouraged to focus their project ideas on a story of someone whose medical problem was of interest to them. Most students opted to conduct a literature review based on their “story”. Here we present their stories and describe how they were led to this point in the process.
Keywords
medical education; research; medical students; medical schools; narrative medicine
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