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Table 3 Core and subcategories of student perspectives

From: Medical student perspectives on substance misuse education in the medical undergraduate programme: a grounded theory approach

Core Category + Influencing category

Sub-Category

1. Substandard substance misuse education: Unprepared to practice

Curriculum design

Tick box exercise

Proportionality: importance vs time

2. Dangerous world: A wider societal problem

Substance misuse in public

Substance misuse in student life

Streetwise

3. Alternative approach to substance misuse education

Clinically relevant spiral curriculum

Psychology of substance misuse

Teaching for today’s society

4. Barriers to curriculum change

Complex patient group

Impacts of disclosure: A need for openness

Baseline knowledge

5. Informal Learning

Sources of informal learning

Dangers of informal learning