Table 1
Overview and characteristics of participating universities
|
University |
Country |
Start date of international program |
Cohort size |
Private or Public |
Curriculum characteristics |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Gadjah Mada University |
Indonesia |
2002 |
80 |
Public |
5Y / I / PBL |
|
Jagiellonian University |
Poland |
1994 |
60 |
Private |
4Y / D / L |
|
Maastricht University |
The Netherlands |
2009 |
60 |
Both |
6Y / I / PBL |
|
Riga Stradins University |
Latvia |
2010 |
200 |
Public |
6Y / D / L |
|
University of Pavia |
Italy |
2009 |
100 |
Public |
6Y / D / L |
|
University of Pécs |
Hungary |
1985 |
150 |
Private |
6Y / D / L |
|
Zhejiang University |
China |
2004 |
80 |
Public |
6Y / D / L |
Y duration in years, D discipline based, I integrated, L lecture based, PBL problem based learning
Table 2
Timeline and response rate data collection
|
Invitations |
Responses T0 (graduation) |
Responses T1 |
Responses T2 |
Responses T3 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Cohort 1 (graduation 2017; 5 institutions) | |||||
|
Timeline |
April–September 2017 |
March–April 2018 (+ 6–12 months) |
March–April 2019 (+ 1 year) |
March–April 2020 (+ 1 year) | |
|
Responses |
484 |
72 |
17 |
18 |
15 |
|
Cohort 2 (graduation 2018; 7 institutions) | |||||
|
Timeline |
April–September 2018 |
March–April 2019 (+ 6–12 months) |
March–April 2020 (+ 1 year) |
– | |
|
Responses |
614 |
116 |
30 |
27 |
– |
|
Total responses & response rate |
1098 |
188 (17.1%) |
47 (25%) |
45 (23.9%) |
15 (20.8%) |
Table 3
Participant characteristics, career choice and location, curriculum evaluation and perception of international career at graduation and 2 years after graduation from an International Medical Program (IMP)
|
Participant characteristics |
At T0 (n = 188) a |
At T2 (n = 45) a | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Female |
59% | |||
|
Mean age at T0 |
26 | |||
|
Residence location post-graduation |
At T0 |
At T2 | ||
|
Returned to home country |
41.7% |
40.9% | ||
|
Stayed in country of their IMP |
24.3% |
2.3% | ||
|
Studied IMP in home country and stayed |
26.2% |
22.7% | ||
|
Moved to 3rd country |
7.7% |
31.8% | ||
|
Unknown |
– |
2.3% | ||
|
Career choice |
At T0 |
At T2 | ||
|
Patient care |
76.9% |
78.7% | ||
|
Research |
7.4% |
4.2% | ||
|
Further degree study |
8.3% |
8.5% | ||
|
Other/don’t know |
7.4% |
4.2% | ||
|
Specialty choice |
At T0 |
At T2 | ||
|
Clinical sub-specialty |
93.5% |
97.3% | ||
|
Tropical medicine / International health |
4.6% |
2.7% | ||
|
Don’t know |
1.9% |
– | ||
|
At T0 |
At T1 |
At T2 |
At T3 | |
|
On a scale from 1–10, “1” meaning not well at all and “10” meaning extremely well, how well do you think your international medical program has prepared you for your career? |
6.41 |
6.65 |
7.11 |
7.39 |
|
International career |
Do you envision yourself to have an international career? (T0) |
Do you consider your current career to be international? (T2) | ||
|
Yes |
57.4% |
61.4% | ||
|
No |
8.3% |
38.6% | ||
|
Maybe |
34.3% |
– | ||
a Not all participants filled out all survey items. We report percentages of the group that filled out the item of interest