Construction and validation of a medical career readiness inventory

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2024-01-17 DOI:10.1111/tct.13733

Amanda Godoi, Charlotte Casteleyn, Farazi Virk, Mia McDade-Kumar, Matthew H. V. Byrne, Ahmed Moussa, Patrice Baptiste, Michal Tombs

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Abstract

Background

Medical students' preparedness for clinical practice is well researched, yet little is known on the extent to which students are being prepared for a medical career. This paper reports the construction of a short medical inventory titled eXploring medical sTudents' caReer reAdiness (XTRA) to measure students' career readiness based on Super's theory of career maturity.

Approach

We designed an instrument consisting of a series of 5-point Likert-scale to identify participants competencies regarding career exploration and planning during their undergraduate studies. The instrument was completed by 348 medical students from 41 universities in the United Kingdom. We examined the validity and reliability of the instrument through Exploratory Factor Analysis, Cronbach's coefficient α and Pearson correlation.

Evaluation

Exploratory Factor Analysis revealed that 16 of the 20-items survey were aligned with the exploration stage of Super's theory: Crystallisation (Career goals), Specification (Career pathways) and Implementation (Career accomplishments). The four items that formed two separate statistical factors were specific to a current medical career in the UK. Internal reliability for Super's factor subscales were acceptable (α = 0.71 to α = 0.81). A significant positive relationship was found between students' overall rating of career readiness and the three factors, indicating construct validity.

Implications

The XTRA Inventory is a short instrument with construct and content validity specifically designed to measure career readiness of medical students. Further work on its psychometric properties will help establish this inventory to be used as a guidance and career counselling tool by medical educators and educational institutions in developing career development programmes.

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构建并验证医学职业准备清单。

背景：关于医学生为临床实践所做准备的研究很多，但对学生为医学职业生涯所做准备的程度却知之甚少。本文报告了一个名为 "探索医学生的职业准备"（XTRA）的简短医学问卷的构建情况，该问卷基于苏普的职业成熟度理论来测量学生的职业准备情况：我们设计了一个由一系列 5 点李克特量表组成的工具，以确定参与者在本科学习期间的职业探索和规划能力。来自英国 41 所大学的 348 名医科学生填写了问卷。我们通过探索性因子分析、克朗巴赫系数 α 和皮尔逊相关性评估来检验该工具的有效性和可靠性：探索性因子分析显示，在 20 个调查项目中，有 16 个项目与苏普理论的探索阶段相吻合：结晶（职业目标）、明确（职业途径）和实施（职业成就）。构成两个独立统计因子的四个项目与英国当前的医学职业生涯有关。超级因子子量表的内部信度是可以接受的（α = 0.71 至 α = 0.81）。学生对职业生涯准备程度的总体评价与三个因子之间存在明显的正相关关系，表明其具有建构效度：XTRA 量表是一个简短的工具，具有建构效度和内容效度，专门用于测量医学生的职业准备度。对其心理测量学特性的进一步研究将有助于确定该量表可用作医学教育工作者和教育机构在制定职业发展计划时的指导和职业咨询工具。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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