Survey on Linguistic Transfer Perceptions Among Chinese Medical Students in an EMI Program

A 2026 pilot study by Jonathan Jenkin Tsui presents survey data from 24 fourth-year Chinese medical students in an English-Medium Instruction program. The data includes student ratings of confidence in performing medical tasks in English and Mandarin and their evaluation of EMI training utility after taking the National Competency Test. The dataset is a 312.4 KB PDF file shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze confidence gaps between English and Mandarin for clinical tasks based on the 10-item parallel rating scales mentioned in the description.
• Study the perceived utility of EMI training for native-language clinical contexts based on the 7-item evaluation component.
• Investigate the correlation between OSCE confidence and actual examination performance as suggested by the results.
• Examine the disconnect between objective academic success and perceived training value highlighted in the study.

Strengths

• Data is from a clearly defined pilot study with a specific methodology (cross-sectional survey, 24 participants).
• Includes quantitative analysis using descriptive statistics, effect sizes (Cohen's d), and paired t-tests.
• Student participants achieved NCT results substantially above national averages, providing a high-performing sample context.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is small in scale (312.4 KB), indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Cross-sectional survey administered to 24 fourth-year EMI medical students post-examination.

Time Range

Data collection timeframe is not specified.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-04 04:18:45; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China (involving Chinese medical students and the National Competency Test).