The use of focus group interviews in Asian medical education evaluative research
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| Title: | The use of focus group interviews in Asian medical education evaluative research |
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| Authors: | Chow, LWC, Lam, TP, Irwin, M, Chan, P |
| Source: | Medical Education. 35:510-513 |
| Publisher Information: | Wiley, 2001. |
| Publication Year: | 2001 |
| Subject Terms: | Reproducibility of results, Asia, Education, Medical - methods, 02 engineering and technology, medical, Education, methods, focus, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Humans, Students, medical, Students, Medical - methods, students, Education, Medical, Data Collection, 4. Education, Focus Groups - methods, Reproducibility of Results, Focus Groups, Focus groups, Focus groups, methods, Curriculum, standards, Curriculum - standards, standards, reproducibility of results, Clinical Competence, Curriculum |
| Description: | To evaluate the use of focus group interviews in Asian medical education evaluative research.Randomly selected medical students were invited to participate in 30 focus group interviews to provide in-depth data about the effect on their learning of the introduction of early clinical skills. Efforts were made to meet all the students to help them understand the objectives of the focus group. Confidentiality was emphasised and a non-faculty interviewer was recruited for the interviews.The students considered the use of focus groups to be a more meaningful way of collecting students' opinions than other methods, for example structured questionnaire, because it allowed an interactive discussion. They also felt that having an independent non-faculty interview moderator had encouraged them to express their opinions more candidly during the interviews.The use of focus group interviews among Asian medical students for evaluative research is practical and efficient. |
| Document Type: | Article Conference object |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 1365-2923 0308-0110 |
| DOI: | 10.1046/j.1365-2923.2001.00898.x |
| Access URL: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11328523 http://hub.hku.hk/handle/10722/102882 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2923.2001.00898.x https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11328523 https://core.ac.uk/display/37908957 https://europepmc.org/article/MED/11328523 http://hdl.handle.net/10722/78313 http://hdl.handle.net/10722/102882 |
| Rights: | Wiley TDM |
| Accession Number: | edsair.doi.dedup.....23e6f719af0fb3d234f85c2ac94b58a3 |
| Database: | OpenAIRE |
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Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstract: | To evaluate the use of focus group interviews in Asian medical education evaluative research.Randomly selected medical students were invited to participate in 30 focus group interviews to provide in-depth data about the effect on their learning of the introduction of early clinical skills. Efforts were made to meet all the students to help them understand the objectives of the focus group. Confidentiality was emphasised and a non-faculty interviewer was recruited for the interviews.The students considered the use of focus groups to be a more meaningful way of collecting students' opinions than other methods, for example structured questionnaire, because it allowed an interactive discussion. They also felt that having an independent non-faculty interview moderator had encouraged them to express their opinions more candidly during the interviews.The use of focus group interviews among Asian medical students for evaluative research is practical and efficient. |
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| ISSN: | 13652923 03080110 |
| DOI: | 10.1046/j.1365-2923.2001.00898.x |