Reliance on High Technology Among Senior Medical Students
作者:
JOSEPH MERRILL,
RONALD LORIMOR,
JACK THORNBY,
CARLOS VALLBONA,
期刊:
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences
(OVID Available online 1998)
卷期:
Volume 315,
issue 1
页码: 35-39
ISSN:0002-9629
年代: 1998
出版商: OVID
关键词: High technology;Medical students;Overuse;Personal characteristics
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
To gain a better understanding of senior medical students who perceive high-technology medicine as the desirable form of medical practice, we developed and evaluated a structural equation model. Intolerance to clinical uncertainty, Machiavellianism, and authoritarianism characterized students who scored higher on reliance on high-technology medicine. High scorers also tended to have a negative orientation toward patients' pyschological problems and were unlikely to choose careers in primary care medicine. Students who perceive high technology as a panacea in clinical medicine share personal traits and attitudes toward patients that are not conducive to achieving the national goal of a 50:50 ratio between primary and non-primary care physicians.
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