Stock-Schröer Beate, Lange Silke
Interprofessional Graduate School for Integrative Medicine and Health, Health Department, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany.
Integrated Curriculum for Anthroposophic Medicine, Health Department, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany.
Front Med (Lausanne). 2024 Dec 5;11:1481796. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2024.1481796. eCollection 2024.
The doctoral thesis in medicine is a special case, as it is usually started during the course of study and the students have no experience of scientific work. This lack of scientific training is often criticized, and the quality of doctoral theses in medicine is considered low. In order to increase the quality of doctoral theses and the successful completion rate, a structured doctoral programme can provide the appropriate support. A cross-sectional survey of doctoral students in the field of medicine and health sciences was conducted to assess their expectations of a structured programme offered by a graduate school planned for doctoral studies in complementary and integrative medicine (CIM). Among other questions concerning experiences in their doctorate, the participants were asked to indicate their expectations in two free text answers and 24 pre-defined answers (5-point Likert scale). In addition, participants were asked how supervision should be organized in the curriculum. The majority of the participants expected individual personal support and advice in the graduate school, while financial support was not very important for them. In addition to the scientific training, networking and support among the participants of the graduate school was considered important. The non-medical participants were interested in personality development in science and networking with other doctoral students, whereas the medical doctoral students were more interested in scientific guidance. Doctoral students with a CIM topic expected a predicate and a better final grade by participating in such a graduate school. These results provide important information on how the curriculum in the graduate school should be designed. The next steps will be to evaluate the preliminary curriculum in order to develop a curriculum following the six-step approach of Kern.
医学博士论文是一种特殊情况，因为它通常在学习过程中就开始撰写，而学生没有科研工作经验。这种缺乏科学训练的情况常遭诟病，医学博士论文的质量也被认为较低。为了提高博士论文质量和成功率，一个结构化的博士项目可以提供适当的支持。我们对医学与健康科学领域的博士生进行了一项横断面调查，以评估他们对一所计划开展补充与整合医学（CIM）博士研究的研究生院提供的结构化项目的期望。在关于他们博士学习经历的其他问题中，参与者被要求用两个自由文本回答和24个预定义回答（5级李克特量表）来表明他们的期望。此外，参与者还被问及课程中的指导应如何安排。大多数参与者期望在研究生院获得个人支持和建议，而经济支持对他们来说不太重要。除了科学训练外，研究生院参与者之间的交流与支持也被认为很重要。非医学专业的参与者对科研中的个人发展以及与其他博士生的交流感兴趣，而医学博士生则对科学指导更感兴趣。研究CIM主题的博士生期望通过参加这样的研究生院获得一个学位评定和更好的最终成绩。这些结果为研究生院的课程应如何设计提供了重要信息。接下来的步骤将是评估初步课程，以便按照克恩的六步法制定课程。
