Issues ranked in order of importance to participants
| Maximum vote possible for one item = 40. | |
| • Allowed to metaphorically experience illness situations we wouldn’t otherwise experience | 14 |
| • No need to timetable student only meetings | 13 |
| • I really enjoyed automatic writing—should have been expanded as a chance to develop skills | 13 |
| • Tutor should have been assigned earlier to help choose topics | 11 |
| • Would have preferred more short stories and books than extracts | 9 |
| • Could have trip to Hay Literature festival | 9 |
| • It affected me as a person, and then as a doctor | 8 |
| • Very enjoyable | 6 |
| • Allows you to think about topics you might not have | |
| • previously thought about | 5 |
| • Would have been useful to have experts from English department | 5 |
| • Some seminars overlapped—you felt you were repeating yourself | 4 |
| • Tutors’ views had greater validity than students | 4 |
| • Tutors who hadn’t done the SSM didn’t know what was expected | 4 |
| • First two–three weeks quite busy—felt overloaded | 3 |
| • To be encouraged at every stage to bring in own literature | 3 |