Exploring the transition from pre-university education to undergraduate medical school
Submitted: 21 May 2024
Accepted: 4 February 2025
Published online: 1 April, TAPS 2025, 10(2), 97-100
Prabanjini Rajkumar & Lucy Victoria Everett Wilding
Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
I. INTRODUCTION
The transition from pre-university education to medical school marks the first significant change medical professionals face in the medical education continuum, and is deemed as a remarkable stressor (Sá et al., 2021). This paper seeks to explore the experiences of incoming students in further detail, noting that current literature focuses predominantly on the transition from pre-clinical to clinical years instead. These findings may offer valuable insight for medical educators to incite change in the current medical curriculum that would foster a smoother transition.
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