Study Preferences of Generation Z Students Admitted to Medical School
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Résumé
Persons born between 1995 and 2012 have been described as belonging to Generation Z (iGen), a group that follows on Generation Y, the millennials. Generation Z individuals have been described as being technologically sophisticated, dependent on mobile devices, love the internet, have short attention span, dislike reading printed material, prefer collaborative activities and learning in teams. In an effort to understand how students will adjust to a medical school’s curriculum, we asked the question: To what extent did students exhibit the characteristics of Generation Z just before they started a medical programme? We examined the study habits of students at the School of Medicine at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus in Trinidad & Tobago. We administered a paper questionnaire during the orientation week to students admitted in August, 2019. The total number of students admitted was 236 of which 223 students belonged to the category of Generation Z. The mean age of the Generation Z group was 19.5 years (range 17 – 24) with 63% females and 37% males. The average time a student took to study before his/her mind began to wander was 48.7 minutes (CI: 44.0, 53.4). There was no significant correlation between age and attention span with r = .061 (p=.388). The number of students who preferred studying alone was 193 (86.5%); those who preferred group study totally or partially (i.e. both alone and in groups) was 30 (13.5%). Most students, 156 (70.0%), preferred studying from textbooks and other printed materials. In contrast, 67 (30.0%) preferred using online materials only or in combination with printed materials. Overall, chi‐square analysis demonstrated a significant difference between student preferences regarding materials used and studying alone or in groups (χ 2 (1) = 8.945, p=0.003). Compared to students who preferred group study, students who preferred studying alone significantly preferred printed materials over online material, odds ratio 3.18 [1.45, 6.98] Conclusion The majority of students admitted into the medical programme fit in the demographic of Generation Z. This study shows that, on admission, the vast majority of the Generation Z students preferred studying alone using printed material, and not in groups or using online material. Thus, the students’ preferred study habits (regarding studying in groups or using online materials) did not fit the expected characteristics of Generation Z. These results are similar to those of previous studies obtained for Millennials who were admitted to medical schools in Kuwait and Canada, and provide guidance to how we may think of adjusting the curriculum to facilitate learning by Generations Z & Y students.
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Prédiction distillée sur la base complète
Imitation des enseignantsNi prévalence calibrée, ni vérité terrain. Validation humaine à venir. Apprise à partir de 10 348 étiquettes directes de Codex et de 10 348 étiquettes directes de Gemma. Le mode candidate est l'union des têtes enseignantes seuillées; le consensus est leur intersection. Ces sorties portent le statut machine_predicted_unvalidated et ne sont ni des étiquettes humaines ni des étiquettes directes de modèles de pointe.
Scores Codex et Gemma par catégorie
| Catégorie | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Métarecherche | 0,001 | 0,001 |
| Méta-épidémiologie (sens strict) | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Méta-épidémiologie (sens large) | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Bibliométrie | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Études des sciences et des technologies | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Communication savante | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Science ouverte | 0,001 | 0,000 |
| Intégrité de la recherche | 0,000 | 0,001 |
| Charge utile insuffisante (le modèle a refusé de juger) | 0,016 | 0,000 |
Scores machine (provisoires)
Les deux têtes enseignantes du modèle étudiant, lues sur ce travail. Un score ordonne la base pour la relecture; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie, et le statut de validation accompagne chaque rangée tel quel.
Scores de référence d'un modèle non mature (critères de maturité non atteints, 7 itérations). Un score ordonne; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · tel quel depuis la passe de notation : score_only signifie que le nombre peut ordonner les travaux, et qu'aucune étiquette de catégorie n'en découleClassification
machine, non validéePrédiction automatique; un appel candidat d’une seule tête enseignante, pas un consensus.
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