ArticleAnnals of medicine and surgery (2012)2021
Ambiguity tolerance among medical students and its relationship with personality and participation in the mentoring program: A cross-sectional study.
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- Clinical Reasoning Uncertainty in Veterinary Medical Encounters with a Clinical Example.Veterinary sciences · 2025Review
- Evolution of medical students' tolerance for uncertainty throughout their curriculum: a systematic mixed studies review protocol.BMJ open · 2025Article
- The impact of a prehospital simulation on medical students' resourcefulness, personal growth initiative, and uncertainty tolerance.AEM education and training · 2024Article
- Want-to, have-to, amotivation, grit, self-control, and tolerance ambiguity among university students: latent profile analysis.BMC psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundLow ambiguity tolerance (AT) can lead to burnout and impact medical students' quality of life. Interventions are effective in increasing tolerance in ambiguous situations. Mentors can be facilitators in ambiguous situations. We aimed to determine the AT among Tehran University of medical sciences (TUMS) medical students and assess its relation with personality traits and mentor-seeking behavior.
methodsA cross-sectional study was designed. We used Budner AT questionnaire and the Ten Item Personality Inventory in our study. Questionnaires were sent to 350 randomly selected TUMS medical students in different years of education. Two hundred six students completed the questionnaires. The response rate was 58.85%.
resultsThe mean AT score was 59.77 among TUMS medical students. No significant difference was seen between different genders and students with different marital statuses. Also, AT was constant among students at different years at medical school and at different education levels (P > 0.05). Students who had participated in the mentoring program were significantly more intolerant of novel situations (P = 0.01). However, they did not have significantly different scores in other subscales of AT scale and its total score than those who had not participated in the mentoring program (P > 0.05).
conclusionMedical students are more intolerant of ambiguity at TUMS than medical students abroad, and there should be interventions to help them cope in ambiguous situations. Mentoring programs may also be considered for future interventions as participants who participate in the program are less tolerant of ambiguity in novel situations.
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