G. Finn
Students’ views on peer evaluation and professionalism: “getting away with it”
Finn, G.; Sawdon, M.
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M. Sawdon
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Background: This study describes how undergraduate medical students perceive professionalism and their views on peer evaluation as a tool for measuring professionalism. Summary of work: 12 undergraduate medical students participated in focus groups after completing a peer evaluation. Focus groups were recorded and transcribed verbatim. Transcripts were coded using a grounded theory approach. This study has since been expanded to include Durham University’s current cohort and the University of Liverpool students. Summary of results: Two main themes emerged; students’ perceptions of how professionalism relates to them (subthemes were attributes, (ir)relevance to students and teaching & learning of professionalism) and views of the design of a peer evaluation tool (subthemes were; online environment, eliminating anonymity, justifying choices and promoting reflection). Conclusions: Students appear to know professionalism should be shown in an academic situation; however they feel that as students they should be able to “get away with it”. Thus, students regard professionalism as only relevant in a clinical context, and call for leniency in preclinical years. Students are accepting of peer evaluation for measuring professionalism; preferring an online environment, with the opportunity to justify their decisions. Students report peer evaluation as a driver for reflection on their own behaviour. Take-home message: Students view professionalism as irrelevant outside of the clinical environment
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Finn, G., & Sawdon, M. (2009). Students’ views on peer evaluation and professionalism: “getting away with it”.
Conference Name | Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) Conference 2009 : incorporating the XIXth SEDEM meeting. |
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Conference Location | Malaga, Spain |
Start Date | Aug 29, 2023 |
End Date | Sep 2, 2009 |
Publication Date | Aug 1, 2009 |
Deposit Date | Aug 3, 2010 |
Publicly Available Date | Apr 6, 2011 |
Publisher URL | http://www.amee.org/index.asp?pg=94 |
Additional Information | Conference dates: 29 August - 2 September 2009. |
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