On 12 April 2022, C.E.E. van Andel will defend her PhD dissertation, entitled: ‘Clinical Grade Differences Between Ethnic Minority and Majority Students: Institutional-, assessor-, and student-related factors’.
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- Date
- Tuesday 12 Apr 2022, 10:30 - 12:00
- Type
- PhD defence
- Space
- Professor Andries Querido room
- Building
- Education Center
- Location
- Erasmus MC
Dissertation in short:
This thesis consists of four empirical studies that have sought to explain why ethnic majority students achieve higher grades than ethnic minority students in clinical training in medical
school. The underlying aim of these studies was to increase diversity and inclusion within medical school; after all, a diverse patient population is best served by a diverse physician’s
population.
The rationale behind this thesis is described in Chapter 1. The existence of ethnicityrelated differences in clinical grades is a multifactorial problem. Chapter 2 and 3 focused on institutional factors that could explain those grade differences, that is, the effects of norms that prevail in medical school and evaluation systems that are used in clinical training.
Chapter 4 and 5 focused on more individual factors, including both assessor and studentrelated factors, such as assessors systematic bias and perceived similarities with students,
and students’ social learning experiences and self-regulatory focus in clinical training.
- More information
The public defence will begin exactly at 10.30 hrs. The doors will be closed once the public defence starts, latecomers can access the hall via the fourth floor. Due to the solemn nature of the ceremony, we recommend that you do not take children under the age of 6 to the first part of the ceremony.
A live stream link has been provided to the candidate.
