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Measuring student satisfaction as the first assessment of the Program of Combined Studies in Medicine, an MD/PhD-like program of the Faculty of Medicine, National Autonomous University of Mexico

BACKGROUND: The Program of Combined Studies in Medicine (PECEM, by its acronym in Spanish) is a program for simultaneous bachelor and doctorate studies (MD/PhD) that enrolls students who show academic excellence and interest in scientific research. The initial doctoral training comprises seven six-m...

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Autores principales: Martínez-Flisser, Gina, Flisser, Ana, Castro-Guerrero, Mario Alberto, Plett-Torres, Tanya
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7678139/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33213436
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-020-02357-1
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author Martínez-Flisser, Gina
Flisser, Ana
Castro-Guerrero, Mario Alberto
Plett-Torres, Tanya
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Flisser, Ana
Castro-Guerrero, Mario Alberto
Plett-Torres, Tanya
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description BACKGROUND: The Program of Combined Studies in Medicine (PECEM, by its acronym in Spanish) is a program for simultaneous bachelor and doctorate studies (MD/PhD) that enrolls students who show academic excellence and interest in scientific research. The initial doctoral training comprises seven six-month research stays in different laboratories or clinical or computer areas with different high-quality scientific advisors who provide students with a unique experience for their scientific training. Therefore, satisfaction in this stage is decisive for students’ performance and physical and psychological health. The aim of the present study was to administer a questionnaire to measure students’ satisfaction with their research experience as a service-product bundle. METHODS: Students answered an online questionnaire that evaluated three dimensions: perceived quality of the advisor, skills development, and infrastructure and support. Several satisfiers were also evaluated: recommendation of the advisor to peers, fulfillment of student expectations and satisfaction with the program. Correlations were calculated using Fisher’s exact test. The significance was set at p < 0.05. RESULTS: The high quality of the advisor, skills development and guidance during the stay were satisfiers correlated to the students’ recommendation of their advisors to their peers and to the fulfillment of the students’ scientific expectations. Conversely, skills development and infrastructure and support were satisfiers for a good to excellent experience as a PECEM student. A lack of direct interaction with the advisor’s workgroup was related to dissatisfaction. CONCLUSIONS: The nontangible products of the service, such as a positive interaction between the student, the advisor and the advisor’s workgroup as well as support obtained during the research stay, were satisfiers. These data indicate that promoting a fruitful bond between the student and advisor is a priority to ensure the quality of our innovative MD/PhD program.
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spelling pubmed-76781392020-11-20 Measuring student satisfaction as the first assessment of the Program of Combined Studies in Medicine, an MD/PhD-like program of the Faculty of Medicine, National Autonomous University of Mexico Martínez-Flisser, Gina Flisser, Ana Castro-Guerrero, Mario Alberto Plett-Torres, Tanya BMC Med Educ Research Article BACKGROUND: The Program of Combined Studies in Medicine (PECEM, by its acronym in Spanish) is a program for simultaneous bachelor and doctorate studies (MD/PhD) that enrolls students who show academic excellence and interest in scientific research. The initial doctoral training comprises seven six-month research stays in different laboratories or clinical or computer areas with different high-quality scientific advisors who provide students with a unique experience for their scientific training. Therefore, satisfaction in this stage is decisive for students’ performance and physical and psychological health. The aim of the present study was to administer a questionnaire to measure students’ satisfaction with their research experience as a service-product bundle. METHODS: Students answered an online questionnaire that evaluated three dimensions: perceived quality of the advisor, skills development, and infrastructure and support. Several satisfiers were also evaluated: recommendation of the advisor to peers, fulfillment of student expectations and satisfaction with the program. Correlations were calculated using Fisher’s exact test. The significance was set at p < 0.05. RESULTS: The high quality of the advisor, skills development and guidance during the stay were satisfiers correlated to the students’ recommendation of their advisors to their peers and to the fulfillment of the students’ scientific expectations. Conversely, skills development and infrastructure and support were satisfiers for a good to excellent experience as a PECEM student. A lack of direct interaction with the advisor’s workgroup was related to dissatisfaction. CONCLUSIONS: The nontangible products of the service, such as a positive interaction between the student, the advisor and the advisor’s workgroup as well as support obtained during the research stay, were satisfiers. These data indicate that promoting a fruitful bond between the student and advisor is a priority to ensure the quality of our innovative MD/PhD program. BioMed Central 2020-11-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7678139/ /pubmed/33213436 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-020-02357-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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title Measuring student satisfaction as the first assessment of the Program of Combined Studies in Medicine, an MD/PhD-like program of the Faculty of Medicine, National Autonomous University of Mexico
title_full Measuring student satisfaction as the first assessment of the Program of Combined Studies in Medicine, an MD/PhD-like program of the Faculty of Medicine, National Autonomous University of Mexico
title_fullStr Measuring student satisfaction as the first assessment of the Program of Combined Studies in Medicine, an MD/PhD-like program of the Faculty of Medicine, National Autonomous University of Mexico
title_full_unstemmed Measuring student satisfaction as the first assessment of the Program of Combined Studies in Medicine, an MD/PhD-like program of the Faculty of Medicine, National Autonomous University of Mexico
title_short Measuring student satisfaction as the first assessment of the Program of Combined Studies in Medicine, an MD/PhD-like program of the Faculty of Medicine, National Autonomous University of Mexico
title_sort measuring student satisfaction as the first assessment of the program of combined studies in medicine, an md/phd-like program of the faculty of medicine, national autonomous university of mexico
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7678139/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33213436
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-020-02357-1
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