Determining School Administrators’ Perceptions on Institutional Culture: A Qualitative Study

High School Teachers' and Administrators' Perceptions of Teacher Motivation Factors

Determining Health Insurance Attributes and Levels: A qualitative study

Background: Health insurance is one of the financing mechanisms in the health sector that reduces expensive and unforeseen costs of the health care for households and converts these costs into predictable premiums. The purpose of this study was to identify the appropriate attributes and levels using the discrete choice experiments for health insurance, which can describe health care services ap...

High School Students' Perceptions of Local, National, and Institutional Scholarships

This study uses data from 15 descriptive case studies to explore high school students’ perceptions of scholarships and the forces that contribute to these perceptions. The findings describe six themes that emerged from the data analyses: (a) awareness of scholarships; (b) perceptions of institutional scholarships; (c) motivations for pursuing scholarships; (d) barriers to pursuing scholarships;...

Community perceptions of a rural medical school: a pilot qualitative study

BACKGROUND This paper explores local community perceptions of a relatively new rural medical school. For the purposes of this paper, community engagement is conceptualized as involvement in planning, delivering, and evaluating the medical program. Although there are several reviews of patient involvement in medical curricula development, this study was designed to pilot an approach to exploring...

A qualitative study on physicians' perceptions of specialty characteristics

PURPOSE There has been limited research on physicians' perceptions of the specialty characteristics that are needed to sustain a successful career in medical specialties in Korea. Medical Specialty Preference Inventory in the United States or SCI59 (specialty choice inventory) in the United Kingdom are implemented to help medical students plan their careers. The purpose of this study was to exp...