Medicine in prospect—the first‐year student's view
作者:
CHRISTINE E. EWAN,
M. J. BENNETT,
期刊:
Medical Education
(WILEY Available online 1981)
卷期:
Volume 15,
issue 5
页码: 287-293
ISSN:0737-3805
年代: 1981
DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2923.1981.tb02490.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
关键词: Students, medical/*psychol;*Education, medical, undergraduate;*Attitude of health personnel;Motivation;Career choice;Interviews;Longitudinal studies;Australia
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
SummaryA sample of first‐year medical students from the University of New South Wales was interviewed to determine the students’ reasons for studying Medicine, their career aspirations and their views, in prospect, of the medical course and medical practice. There were some differences, in general responses, between men and women. In general the interviews revealed that at this stage of their careers the students were motivated to a high degree by humanitarian concerns.Recent criticisms of the outcomes of medical education have featured concerns that graduating doctors do not demonstrate sufficient ability to relate to patients on a personal level or to take a holistic approach to care. Some medical educators and community spokesmen have attributed this to the selection system which, based solely on academic merit, chooses students with high academic ability and according to some critics, low social abilities and awareness. The results of this study indicate that such assumptions are false and that undesirable attitudes said to be present in graduating doctors do not appear to be present in the early stages of medical educat
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