What factors encourage and deter student from applying to medicine:
 Is there a difference in factors between those of first-in-family university students, first-in-family medical students, and those with parents who have previously completed a medical degree?


Kirsten Dukes

^{Supervisors: A/Prof Catherine Harding & A/Prof Joseph Suttie}

Aim

This study will be looking at the factors that may encourage or deter students from applying to a medical school. Additional analysis will be taken to determine if these factors have a different impact on first-in-family university students, first-in-family medical students, and those with parents who have previously completed a medical degree. This will be completed by distributing a questionnaire to medical students across all four years at the university of Notre Dame Sydney. There is hope that this questionnaire will be distributed at the beginning of 2020s academic year. The questionnaire will involve questions pertaining to mental wellbeing, impact of distance, familial support, financial burden, prior experience within the family (first-in-family students), and prior support and information provided before application.