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Table 3 Interview question protocol

From: Fitness-to-practice concerns in rural undergraduate medical education: a qualitative study

Interview topic areas:

Can you tell me about your role in the MBBS program?

To what extent have you encountered these issues during your years as an educator/while you’ve been training?

How have you responded to such issues? What outcomes were you seeking/did you achieve? Did you consider the outcome(s) to be satisfactory?

What assistance were you able to enlist within your faculty/the university more widely?

How effective was this?

How important do you think it is that universities respond to FTP concerns in a proactive way during the pre-service years?

What other bodies/organisations have a role to play in addressing FTP concerns?

What factors have facilitated responses?

What have the barriers been?

Can you tell me about a particular occasion when you felt you achieved a good outcome?

 

What about an outcome that you were less happy with?