Cultures of Success: How elite students develop and realise aspirations to study Medicine

Ho, Christina; Hu, Wendy; Griffin, Barbara

doi:10.1007/s13384-022-00548-x

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“…Many Chinese parents [17] have an elite-school complex, which results in their kids being under much academic pressure. Instead of pursuing their children's hearts and passions, parents frequently choose majors, typically those with outstanding prospects like finance and accounting degrees.…”

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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Chinese Students Studying Abroad

Yang¹

2023

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Education, Language and Art (ICELA 2022)

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The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a sharp deterioration of Chinese international students' social and psychological environment. Social isolation, public media opinion, school blockades, and social unrest have brought huge psychological impacts to Chinese students. Moreover, the education sector has unaddressed the difficulties and worries faced by Chinese students considering learning overseas during the pandemic. Chinese students are prone to homesickness and loneliness since they spend much time alone living and studying abroad in a completely foreign cultural setting. In addition, in the context of COVID-19. In the psychological response, many international students follow the social isolation policy, take classes at home, and reduce travel. Physical isolation and reduction of social interaction aggravate psychological loneliness. Against this background, from the viewpoint of actor networks, this study investigates the network of issues and challenges encountered by Chinese students who desire to go abroad for academic learning. The findings suggest that Chinese international students have heightened psychological anxiety during Covid-19 and are worried about their future development. Therefore, future research should combine large-scale questionnaire surveys, detailed behavioral experiments, in-depth case analysis, and effective online intervention to explore theoretical models and intervention plans for overseas students' mental health to improve Chinese students' mental health: cultural adaptation and stress resilience of groups.

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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Chinese Students Studying Abroad

Yang¹

2023

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Education, Language and Art (ICELA 2022)

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“…However, the literature concerning health career expectations has primarily concentrated on the specialty choice of university medical students. It mainly used regional or national datasets, making its findings difficult to generalize to larger populations and different countries [ 20 , 21 ].…”

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Attracting adolescents to become doctors and nurses: differential importance of personal and environmental factors in 61 economies

Guo

Hau

2023

Hum Resour Health

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Background Doctors and nurses play a fundamental role in maintaining global health systems and achieving universal health care coverage. However, significant shortages persist, and little is known about the popularity of these careers among young people in various economies or the relative impact of personal inputs and contextual factors. Methods Using data from the large-scale Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) 2018, we showed the recent distribution of adolescents' medical (doctor) and nursing career expectations in 61 economies. With multilevel logistic and hierarchical linear regression, we examined the relative importance of economic indicators, health work conditions, and personal background factors in affecting adolescents' health career expectations. Results Approximately 11% of adolescents expected to be doctors in each economy, while only 2% expected to be nurses. Adolescents were attracted to health professions mainly by system-level favourable conditions (accounting for 1/3 variance), including (a) government health expenditure beyond that expected gross domestic product (GDP); (b) a safe working environment for doctors in wealthy nations; and (c) high salaries for nurses in less-developed economies. In contrast, adolescents' background (gender, social status, and academic ability) was less influential, explaining only 10% of the differences. Conclusions In the technological and digital era, high-ability students are equally competitive for emerging careers other than doctors and nurses. In developing countries, a high salary package and societal respect are enough to attract adolescents to nursing careers. In contrast, for developed countries, extra expenditures beyond regular GDP allocation and a safe work environment are crucial in attracting adolescents to become doctors. Salary may effectively attract international-trained doctors and nurses, but the work environment will likely emerge as an essential factor in retaining migrants in their positions. Trial registration number: No human participants were involved in this study.

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“…While assessing general reasoning ability is one way in which universities might attempt to minimize the advantages conferred by the abovementioned socioeconomic factors, it does not, of course, eliminate them. Other strategies are required to enable successful applications from traditionally underrepresented students, such as targeted outreach to certain schools and student groups (Martin et al, 2018; McLachlan, 200), enabling “aspirational capacity” in less advantaged students (Ho et al, 2022), and appreciating and responding to the wider social and political context of medical school selection (Cleland et al, 2018; Fielding et al, 2018). Nevertheless, it is vital to ensure that the use of a cognitive ability test does not itself provide an additional barrier to such applicants.…”

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Should we extend the currency of cognitive ability test scores? Considerations from construct, equity, and psychometric perspectives in medical selection

Chiavaroli,

Le,

Parker‐Newlyn

et al. 2023

Int J Selection Assessment

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Scores on cognitive ability tests used in tertiary admissions contexts generally have very limited currency. This can have significant implications for prospective applicants to high‐demand courses which use cognitive tests as part of the selection process. In this paper we present both psychometric and non‐psychometric considerations regarding the score currency of ability tests, using GAMSAT (Graduate Medical School Admissions Test) as an example. We found that GAMSAT scores showed sufficient stability at the cohort level for institutions to be reasonably confident that a test score would continue to provide a valid representation of cognitive ability for up to a 5‐year period. However, candidates’ pre‐test preparation will influence whether it is in their interest to re‐sit a test even within an extended currency period.

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Cultures of Success: How elite students develop and realise aspirations to study Medicine

Cited by 9 publications

References 50 publications

The Impacts of COVID-19 on Chinese Students Studying Abroad

The Impacts of COVID-19 on Chinese Students Studying Abroad

Attracting adolescents to become doctors and nurses: differential importance of personal and environmental factors in 61 economies

Should we extend the currency of cognitive ability test scores? Considerations from construct, equity, and psychometric perspectives in medical selection

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