Medical students’ educational strategies in an environment of prestige hierarchies of specialties and diseases
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Medical students’ educational strategies in an environment of prestige hierarchies of specialties and diseases. / Hindhede, Anette Lykke.
In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, Vol. 41, No. 3, 2020, p. 315-330.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Medical students’ educational strategies in an environment of prestige hierarchies of specialties and diseases
AU - Hindhede, Anette Lykke
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Drawing on Bourdieu’s theory of practice, this paper aims to understand whether and how a reproduction of the status hierarchy of medical specialties and diagnoses occurs within a medical school in a North European context as well as students’ educational strategies given the hierarchy. We report data from a cross-sectional survey conducted on a sample of Danish medical students. The 289 respondents ranked diseases and specialities, based on how they believed most health personnel would rank them. In addition, 18 in-depth interviews with medical students were conducted. Comparing the ranking responses of early, mid and late phase students, the analysis tracks the gradual convergence and broad agreement around a hierarchy. The paper concludes that medical school is a highly competitive field of higher education, where distinction is invested in and reproduced by curricular knowledge. This distinction is reinforced within wider structural elements such as governmental educational policies.
AB - Drawing on Bourdieu’s theory of practice, this paper aims to understand whether and how a reproduction of the status hierarchy of medical specialties and diagnoses occurs within a medical school in a North European context as well as students’ educational strategies given the hierarchy. We report data from a cross-sectional survey conducted on a sample of Danish medical students. The 289 respondents ranked diseases and specialities, based on how they believed most health personnel would rank them. In addition, 18 in-depth interviews with medical students were conducted. Comparing the ranking responses of early, mid and late phase students, the analysis tracks the gradual convergence and broad agreement around a hierarchy. The paper concludes that medical school is a highly competitive field of higher education, where distinction is invested in and reproduced by curricular knowledge. This distinction is reinforced within wider structural elements such as governmental educational policies.
U2 - 10.1080/01425692.2019.1703645
DO - 10.1080/01425692.2019.1703645
M3 - Journal article
VL - 41
SP - 315
EP - 330
JO - British Journal of Sociology of Education
JF - British Journal of Sociology of Education
SN - 0142-5692
IS - 3
ER -
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