Medical Students' Reflections on Transitioning to Their First General Practice Placement: Qualitative Descriptive Study

Sara Bashar Qasrawi   ¹ ;   Maryam Tomerak   ^{1 *} ;   Shahad Abdulkhaleq Mamalchi   ^{2 *} , MD ;   Fatima Atieh   ¹ ;   Hasan AlAdraj   ³ , MB, BCh, BAO ;   Mohamed Abdulla   ⁴ , MB, BCh, BAO ;   Salim Fredericks   ¹ , PhD ;   Ghufran Jassim   ⁵ , MBBS, MSc, MD, PhD ;   Hani Malik   ⁶ ;   Eric Clarke   ⁷ , MSc ;   Denis Harkin   ⁷ , MB, MD ;   Shaista Salman Guraya   ⁸ , PhD

¹ School of Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland - Medical University of Bahrain, Busaiteen, Bahrain

² Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

³ Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, NHS, Cardiff, United Kingdom

⁴ Salmaniya Medical Complex, Manama, Bahrain

⁵ Family Medicine Department, School of Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI)-Medical University of Bahrain, Busaiteen, Bahrain

⁶ Royal Bahrain Hospital, Manama, Bahrain

⁷ Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

⁸ Institute of Learning, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai Health, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

*these authors contributed equally