ArticleActa informatica medica : AIM : journal of the Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia & Herzegovina : casopis Drustva za medicinsku informatiku BiH2014
The Perceptions of Professionalism by 1(st) and 5(th) Grade Medical Students.
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- The Effect of Teaching Professionalism by Using Real Lifetime Scenarios in Undergraduate Medical Students: An Educational Trial.Journal of advances in medical education & professionalism · 2024Article
- Attitudes toward professionalism in medical students and its associations with personal characteristics and values: a national multicentre study from Slovenia raising the question of the need to rethink professionalism.Advances in medical education and practice · 2019Article
- Assessing Empathic Attitudes in Medical Students: The Re-validation of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy-Student Version Report.Zdravstveno varstvo · 2015Article
- Scoping Review of frequently highlighted attributes of Medical Professionalism in an Undergraduate Medical Education Context.Pakistan journal of medical sciencesArticle
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Abstract
introductionProfessionalism is essential for the development of mature physicians but not much education is devoted to that theme.
aimWe aimed to determine the views of undergraduate medical students on medical professionalism.
methodsThis was a qualitative study, based on focus groups of the first and fifth-year undergraduate medical students. Transcripts of the focus groups were independently evaluated by two researches. Segments of transcripts, identified as important, were marked as verbatims. A grounded theory method with open coding was applied. A list of codes was developed and reviewed by both researchers until the consensus was reached. Then, the codes were reviewed and put into the categories and dimensions.
resultsStudents recognized 10 main medical professionalism dimensions (empathy, respect, responsibility, autonomy, trust, communication, difference between professional and private life, team work, partnership) and two dimensions associated with it (physician's characteristics, external factors). Slight change of the attitudes towards a more self-centred future physicians' figure was observed in the fifth-year medical students.
conclusionThe students have an appropriate picture of the physicians' figure even at the beginning of their medical studies but still needs an education in professionalism. It seems that the fifth-year students perceive physicians as more self-centred when compared to their first-year colleagues.
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