Open AccessStudent’s motivation to pursue a graduate-entry medicine degree programme
Author(s) -
Sonia Kumar,
Rachel Browne,
Jeffrey Chieh Fei. Wu,
Simon Tso
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the asia pacific scholar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2424-9335
pISSN - 2424-9270
DOI - 10.29060/taps.2021-6-1/pv2240
Subject(s) - bachelor , medical education , variety (cybernetics) , graduate degree , entry level , degree (music) , psychology , degree program , baccalaureate degree , bachelor degree , medicine , pedagogy , mathematics education , higher education , political science , computer science , physics , artificial intelligence , acoustics , law
The decision to pursue medicine is a significant step for individuals, particularly those for whom this involves a career change. While medicine in the UK has traditionally been an undergraduate course, graduate-entry medicine (GEM) programmes were introduced in 2000 and offer an accelerated course for suitably qualified candidates with a Bachelor’s degree. Students have a variety of motivations for undertaking a GEM programme (Carter & Peile, 2007), and we herein explore the factors that influence this range of motivations.