Medical students' experience of academic review and promotions committees.
BACKGROUND
Like all medical schools, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine (NEOUCOM) has an elaborate committee system for academic review and promotions (ARP). Little research exists locally or nationally on this system.


OBJECTIVE
E-mail invitations to all 420 NEOUCOM currently enrolled students were sent seeking their participation in a qualitative study that involved interviewing students who had appeared before an ARP committee at any time for any reason to understand how they experienced the process.


METHODS
NUD*IST software was used to analyze the data generated by the interviews.


RESULTS
The invitation drew 19 volunteers from the pool of 84 students who, at the time of the messages, had appeared before an ARP committee at least once. Themes were discovered surrounding students' perceptions of the committee's purpose, their experience of it, their beliefs about students' honesty when appearing before the committee, how they felt about themselves after a committee appearance, and how they would improve the process of academic review.
Wear
Delese
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Department of Behavioral Sciences, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Rootstown, Ohio 44272, USA. dw@neoucom.edu
Keck-McNulty
Cynthia
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Jones
Bonnie
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Penn
Mark
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Moss
Polly
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