The UNSW Medicine Student Experience Questionnaire (MedSEQ): A Synopsis of its Development, Features and Utility

Abstract

The UNSW Medical Student Experience Questionnaire was designed to establish a database of student response both for monitoring aspects of students’ experience and for developing strategic improvements to the UNSW MBBS Program to improve that experience. In its effectiveness as a measurement tool for these purposes, interest has been piqued in other quarters, prompting the development of an accompaniment to the questionnaire, synopsising its development, features and utility, to contextualise appropriate reading of the instrument and to cite as required. The context provided includes the principles guiding the development of the questionnaire; the methods of its trial and application; the properties of the questionnaire in terms of validity and utility; and its projected future use, both internal to UNSW Medicine, but also, as a guiding principle of form and content for development of similar tools in other contexts.