Follow the policy: an actor network theory study of widening participation to medicine in two countries

• Main Authors: Coyle, Maeve, Bullen, Jonathan, Poobalan, Amudha, Sandover, Sally, Cleland, Jennifer
• Other Authors: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Science::Medicine; Affirmative Action; Controlled Study
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/170961
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The slow pace of change in respect of increasing the diversity of medical students suggests powerful actors are reproducing practices to support the status quo. Opening up medicine to embrace diversity thus requires the deconstruction of entrenched processes and practices. The first step in doing so is to understand how the actor-network of widening participation and access to medicine (WP/WA) is constructed. Thus, here we examine how the connections among actors in WP/WA in two different networks are assembled.