Junior medical students' notions of a 'good doctor' and related expectations: a mixed methods study.
Objective To explore junior medical students' notions of a 'good doctor', given their ideas about: success in Year 1, house jobs, and their attraction to medicine. Methods Study participants were junior medical students (1999 and 2001 entry cohorts studied thrice and twice, respectively) and prospec...
| Publicado en: | Medical Education Vol. 41; no. 5; pp. 476 - 487 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May2007
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=106010807&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 106010807 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 03080110 ESF jtl: Medical Education issn: 03080110 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: May2007 vid: 41 iid: 5 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell place: Malden, Massachusetts artinfo: ui: 106010807 106010807 2009573781 10.1111/j.1365-2929.2007.02729.x NLM17470077 106010807 ppf: 476 ppct: 11 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Junior medical students' notions of a 'good doctor' and related expectations: a mixed methods study. aug: au: Maudsley G Williams EM Taylor DC sug: subj: Attitude of Health Personnel Clinical Competence Standards Students, Medical Psychosocial Factors Career Planning and Development England Motivation Prospective Studies Questionnaires Human ab: Objective To explore junior medical students' notions of a 'good doctor', given their ideas about: success in Year 1, house jobs, and their attraction to medicine. Methods Study participants were junior medical students (1999 and 2001 entry cohorts studied thrice and twice, respectively) and prospective students of the University of Liverpool's 5-year, problem-based, community-orientated curriculum. Data collection and analysis used a 'mixed methods' approach, cross-sectional design, and brief questionnaire surveys. In an index survey, open questions (analysed inductively) explored house jobs and Year 1 success. They also generated 'good doctor' themes, which a second survey confirmed and 3 surveys ranked. A sixth survey explored motivation for choosing medicine (open question). Good doctor rankings were analysed by postcode for prospective medical students classified as school-leaver residents of England and Wales. Results Response rates were: 91.4% (973) of the 2001-02 admission candidates, on interview days; 68.0% (155), 61.2% (137) and 77.9% (159) of the 1999 cohort (at entry, end-Year 1 and mid-Year 3, respectively), and 71.0% (201) and 71.0% (198) of the 2001 cohort (at entry and end-Year 1, respectively). From 9 themes generally compatible with self-reported motivations and expectations, junior and prospective medical students consistently valued a good doctor as a 'compassionate, patient-centred carer' and a 'listening, informative communicator' over an 'exemplary, responsible professional'. Prospective students from less affluent English and Welsh postcodes valued 'efficient, organised self-manager' very slightly more highly (r(s) = - 0.140, P = 0.003). Conclusions This research provided empirical evidence to support ongoing commentary about patients mostly seeking qualities related to communication, caring, and competence in doctors. Weak evidence that socio-economic status might affect notions of a good doctor is worth pursuing. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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