Inspiring the future generation of oncologists: a UK-wide study of medical students’ views towards oncology

BMC Medical Education

Table 3 Teaching satisfaction: comparison of responses from the national survey (n = 166) and post-conference questionnaire (n = 34)

Question	National survey^a	Post-conference^a	p-value^b
How satisfied are you with the quality of pre-clinical oncology teaching at your university
Teaching hours	2.8 ± 1.1	3.3 ± 1.0	0.0120
Content and material	2.9 ± 1.1	3.4 ± 1.0	0.0084
Structure of the course	2.8 ± 1.0	3.2 ± 1.2	0.0410
How satisfied are you with the quality of clinical oncology teaching at your university
Teaching hours	2.8 ± 1.1	2.9 ± 1.0
Content and material	2.8 ± 1.1	2.9 ± 0.9
Structure of the course	2.8 ± 1.1	2.9 ± 1.0

^a Data is reported as the mean value of the Likert score ± standard deviation
^b p-value obtained from MWU test analysis between national survey and post-conference questionnaire

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