ABSTRACT

Objective : In the fieldwork process, experiences of students living in the Gosiwon after finishing work in the hospital greatly affected overall practice. The study on everyday life of the Gosiwon will be used as basic data to better understand students’fieldwork experiences. The question of the study was “what are daily survival strategies for fieldwork students who lived in Gosiwon?”. Methods : In depth interviews were conducted with five students who finished occupational therapy fieldwork three and four times. Data collection ended when new content was not created any longer. The duration was from Oct, 2008 to Jan, 2009. To protect ethical aspect of the subjects, they submitted the written consent with records such as protection about rights to volunteer in the survey and stop their participation, anonymity for secrecy, memo and recording about interview contents. The data collection and analysis were conducted according to‘ Giorgi’s four specific procedures. Results : The results of the study consisted of 86 semantic units, 14 sub-components, and 6 components, and components about occupational therapy students’survival in the unfamiliar and desolate Gosiwon were as follows. There were‘ burden of narrow Gosiwon space’,‘ difficulty of common life’,‘ experience of serious psychological stresses’,‘ obtaining of power from family’s love’,‘ understanding of the survival strategy in the common life’, and‘ understanding of the survival strategy in the unfamiliar environment’. Conclusions : Fieldwork students used their own various strategies to survive the Gosiwon, and diverse approaches should be sought to support them.