Dealing with emotions: medical undergraduates' preferences in sharing their experiences.

Context Patient care evokes emotional responses such as uncertainty, grief and pride in medical students. There is a need for opportunities to share and express such emotions because they influence students' professional development and well-being. There is a trend towards introducing mentor program...

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Publicado en:Medical Education Vol. 50; no. 8; pp. 817 - 829
Autores principales: Vries‐Erich, Joy M, Dornan, Tim, Boerboom, Tobias B B, Jaarsma, A Debbie C, Helmich, Esther
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Aug2016
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          Vries‐Erich, Joy M
          Dornan, Tim
          Boerboom, Tobias B B
          Jaarsma, A Debbie C
          Helmich, Esther
        affil: Department of Evidence Based Education, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam the Netherlands
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          Students, Medical Psychosocial Factors
          Emotions
          Education, Medical
          Student Attitudes
          Human
          Purposive Sample
          Constant Comparative Method
          Academic Medical Centers Netherlands
          Netherlands
          Mentorship
          Convenience Sample
          Male
          Female
          Adult
          Semi-Structured Interview
          Audiorecording
          Conceptual Framework
          Theory
          Interpersonal Relations
          Thematic Analysis
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Male
          Female
      ab: Context Patient care evokes emotional responses such as uncertainty, grief and pride in medical students. There is a need for opportunities to share and express such emotions because they influence students' professional development and well-being. There is a trend towards introducing mentor programmes into medical curricula. It remains unknown whether students are willing and able to share their emotional experiences within this formal setting. We set out to explore how medical students share their emotional experiences and why. Methods We used thematic analysis, including purposeful sampling, parallel processes of data collection and constant comparative analysis, maintaining an audit trail for validation purposes. The study had a constructivist, interactional design and used Goffman's dramaturgical theory as an interpretive framework. Nineteen students participated in individual, semi-structured interviews. Results Participants' narratives revealed a preference for sharing emotional experiences away from people who might expect them to uphold formal behaviour. They deliberately decided with whom to share their emotional experiences. Participants had a preference to talk to fellow students working in the same department, or family and friends outside medical school. Conclusions Participants found it difficult to uphold behaviours that they thought patients, preceptors or the organisation expected of them as future doctors. In adjusting their behaviour to meet those expectations, they became attuned to how to best present themselves based on the people present. This influenced how they chose which emotional experiences to share with whom.
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