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      Students’ perceptions of learning environment and their leisure-time exercise in medical school: Does sport background matter?

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          Introduction

          The effectiveness of medical school efforts in addressing suboptimal student wellbeing rests, in part, on how students perceive their learning environment. The study aim was to determine whether students’ sport background was a contributing factor in students’ perceptions of the medical program as supportive of their basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness. We also examined the relationship between sport background and students’ leisure-time exercise in medical school.

          Methods

          Using an online questionnaire, quantitative data were collected from students enrolled in the 4‑year medical program at a large Canadian university. Two hundred ( n = 200) students had complete responses on the measures used in the study. Analysis of variance and correlational analysis were used to examine the relationships between students’ sport background, their perceptions of the learning environment, and leisure-time exercise in medical school.

          Results

          Compared with students with no sport background, students with a team sport background perceived their need for relatedness to be satisfied to a greater degree in the medical program. Students who pursued sports at higher levels of involvement (competitively) perceived the medical program as more autonomy-supportive than students who pursued sports at lower levels of involvement (recreationally). Irrespective of their sport background, students’ involvement in leisure-time exercise decreased over the years in the medical program. However, students with a sport background engaged in leisure-time exercise in medical school to a greater extent than students with no sport background.

          Discussion

          The findings indicate that sport background is associated with students’ perceptions of the learning environment as supportive of their needs for autonomy and relatedness, but not for competence, and is linked to their leisure-time exercise in medical school. The observed relationships could help inform medical schools curricular initiatives in preventing student burnout right from the start of medical school.

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                Contributors
                oksana.babenko@ualberta.ca
                Journal
                Perspect Med Educ
                Perspect Med Educ
                Perspectives on Medical Education
                Bohn Stafleu van Loghum (Houten )
                2212-2761
                2212-277X
                3 February 2020
                3 February 2020
                April 2020
                : 9
                : 2
                : 92-97
                Affiliations
                [1 ]GRID grid.17089.37, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, , University of Alberta, ; Edmonton, Alberta Canada
                [2 ]GRID grid.17089.37, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, , University of Alberta, ; Edmonton, Alberta Canada
                Author information
                http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2140-1551
                http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5870-4738
                Article
                560
                10.1007/s40037-020-00560-w
                7138776
                32016812
                fc11c4f1-48fb-4d91-9033-07047026e0e7
                © The Author(s) 2020

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                medical students,sport background,basic psychological needs,leisure-time exercise
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