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Direct linkVincent-Ruz, Paulette; Grabowski, Joseph; Schunn, Christian D. – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2018
The authors examine the effects of undergraduate research experiences on key steps in the path to medical school, considering the case of an undergraduate research experience (URE) offered to first-year students that also might influence performance in large introductory science courses. Using a historical dataset of 15,000 first-year students,…
Descriptors: Student Research, Undergraduate Students, Medical Education, College Freshmen
Witherspoon, Eben B.; Vincent-Ruz, Paulette; Schunn, Christian D. – Educational Researcher, 2019
Women take qualifying exams and enter medical school at substantially lower levels than predicted by their interest in medical degrees at the end of high school. We examined how science course experiences contribute to gendered attrition in premed using a multicohort data set of 8,253 undergraduates taking the traditional premed sequence of…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Premedical Students, Dropouts, Science Education
