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Students' perception of private supplementary tutoring during medical undergraduate study in some Egyptian universities

Sahar Issa (Department of Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt)
Heba Abd El Aaty (Department of Parasitology, Misr University for Science and Technology, 6th of October City, Egypt)
Yasmin Mohammed Gaber (Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt)
Nancy M. Zaghloul (Department of Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, Misr University for Science and Technology, 6th of October City, Egypt)

Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education

ISSN: 2050-7003

Article publication date: 19 May 2022

Issue publication date: 28 February 2023

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Abstract

Purpose

The current work aimed to investigate the private tutoring phenomenon among Egyptian medical faculty students.

Design/methodology/approach

The present work is a cross-sectional observational study using an online, anonymous questionnaire disseminated to Egyptian medical students and instructors via social platforms and university e-mails. All subjects involved in the survey gave informed consent to begin the questionnaire. No financial incentives were awarded to finish the questionnaire.

Findings

In total, 79.2% of the surveyed students (n = 198) admitted taking private medical courses during their medical study courses till the date of the survey. The Egyptian students, 68.4% (n = 171), markedly surpassed the non-Egyptian participants (n = 79, 31.6%). Males were nearly double the female participants (n = 162 and 88 consecutively).The highest academic-level-seeking private medical tutoring was the fifth-year students (n = 66, 26.4%).

Research limitations/implications

A large sample size is needed to strengthen the statistical power and permit the generalization over the population, so more research work in this aspect is recommended. Also, subject-specific data in private medical tutoring need to be investigated in future works. Similar global work is recommended to allow better comparison of data worldwide.

Originality/value

When conceptualizing medical education processes and developing its regulations, the dynamics of private medical instruction should be taken into account, especially concerning socioeconomic inequities and efficiency in medical school systems. This work has been the first to investigate the private tutoring phenomenon among Egyptian medical students to the authors' best knowledge.

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Citation

Issa, S., Abd El Aaty, H., Gaber, Y.M. and Zaghloul, N.M. (2023), "Students' perception of private supplementary tutoring during medical undergraduate study in some Egyptian universities", Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, Vol. 15 No. 2, pp. 599-611. https://doi.org/10.1108/JARHE-01-2022-0030

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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