Academic Journal
Performance report for a 10-year-old MD/PhD Program: A survey of trainees at the University of Ottawa
| العنوان: | Performance report for a 10-year-old MD/PhD Program: A survey of trainees at the University of Ottawa |
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| المؤلفون: | Pietrobon, Adam, Chehadé, Lucia, Beaudry-Richard, Alexandra, Keller, Brian A., Schlossmacher, Michael G. |
| المصدر: | Clinical and Investigative Medicine ; volume 43, issue 2, page E1-13 ; ISSN 1488-2353 |
| بيانات النشر: | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| الوصف: | Purpose: Integrated MD/PhD programs are relatively new in Canada and represent a platform to train the next generation of clinician-scientists. However, MD/PhD programs vary substantially by structure, funding and mentorship opportunities, and there exists a paucity of data on the overall students’ successes and challenges. The purpose of this study is to assess objective and subjective metrics of the MD/PhD Program at the University of Ottawa. Methods: Students in all years of the program were invited to complete a 58- question survey, and the resulting data were analyzed by descriptive statistics. Results: Our survey had an 88.5% (23/26) participation rate. The program has been gaining interest and the number of applications increased by 178% between 2013 and 2018. Tuition support was considered an essential element in accepting the admission offer, as 47.8% of students would have declined admission without full tuition coverage. The MD/PhD students were heavily engaged in scholarly activities, with an average of 8.3 presentations/ publications per respondent. Respondents indicated low satisfaction with formal career planning advice (28.6% satisfied/very satisfied) and program transition guidance (22.2%). When delivered informally by peers, both career planning advice and program transition guidance were experienced as more satisfying (65.2% and 63.6%, respectively). Only 34.8% of survey respondents identified as female, highlighting the challenge of achieving diversity in clinician-scientist training programs. Conclusion: Our report contributes to the body of knowledge on concrete obstacles experienced by students within MD/PhD programs and key areas that can be improved upon—locally, provincially and nationally—to further advance student success. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | unknown |
| DOI: | 10.25011/cim.v43i2.33955 |
| الاتاحة: | http://dx.doi.org/10.25011/cim.v43i2.33955 https://cimonline.ca/index.php/cim/article/download/33955/26466 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.68054D26 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.25011/cim.v43i2.33955 |
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