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PubMed1992

[Working conditions of medical students--medical students and research].

A questionnaire survey was conducted among 33 medical students (22 men and 11 women) working as part or full-time research trainees at the University of Bergen in 1990, in order to examine various aspects of their working conditions. Most trainees (81%) experienced a well-organized initial research project, and 85% were quite content with their personal supervision. The students "defined" two hours per week as an "adequate amount" of supervision. A higher percentage of the male trainees were first author of scientific publications, while a higher percentage of the females felt that they had learned something from their scientific training. Surprisingly perhaps, relatively more of the female wished to do research full time in the future. 94% of the research trainees recommended other medical students to participate in research training programmes during their student career.

Education, Medical, Continuing↗
PubMed2002

Comparison of medical students, medical school faculty, primary care physicians, and the general population on attitudes toward psychological help-seeking.

This study is a preliminary comparison of the attitudes of osteopathic medical students, medical school faculty, primary care providers, and the general population toward seeking professional psychological help. Attitudes were also studied in the former three groups for those who had and had not previously received mental health services. 103 medical students, 22 faculty, 31 primary care providers, and 395 people from the general population responded to the mail-out survey. Attitudes toward help-seeking were more negative among the general population group than among students and providers. For these students, faculty, and providers, attitudes toward seeking help were more positive if they reported having received mental health services in the past.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1982

Attitudes toward cancer. II: A comparative analysis of cancer patients, medical students, medical residents, physicians and cancer educators.

The current investigation was designed to determine how cancer patients, medical students, medical residents, nononcologically oriented physicians, and cancer educators differ with respect to attitudes towards cancer. A total of 372 individuals completed the Cancer Attitude Survey. Cancer educators displayed more confidence in the patient's ability to cope with diagnostic and prognostic information than students, other physicians, and patients themselves. Patients and cancer educators favored aggressive therapy to greater extent than other physicians, students, and alumni. Among nononcologic physicians and students there were significant effects of respondent's sex and prior personal experience with cancer on the attitudes expressed. Cancer educators differed significantly by specialty with surgical oncologists most likely to favor aggressive therapy. When compared to physician groups studied in the 1960s, our overall physician group (residents, cancer educators, and other physicians) was more likely to exhibit: (1) confidence in the patient's coping ability; (2) skepticism about the efficacy of early diagnosis and the value of aggressive treatment; and (3) stronger beliefs in the patient's ability to prepare for and accept death. Comparisons of our medical student group with students studied by Haley and his colleagues revealed a similar picture. Implications of these findings for the education of medical students are discussed.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
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Attitudes toward euthanasia, assisted suicide and termination of life-sustaining treatment of Puerto Rican medical students, medical residents, and faculty.

OBJECTIVE: To elicit the opinion of Puerto Rican medical students, residents and internal medicine faculty as to the appropriateness of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide and end-of-life management. DESIGN: Survey using a 16-item questionnaire answered within a two-month period in the fall of 1996. SETTING: Rounds or faculty meetings at teaching hospitals located in the north, south and southwest of the island of Puerto Rico. PARTICIPANTS: There were 424 participants. The questionnaires of 279 medical students, 75 medical residents, and 35 internal medicine faculty members were analyzed. Thirty-five questionnaires, which were incomplete or answered by non-Puerto Rican participants, were excluded. MAIN OUTCOMES MEASURES: Frequency of support of active euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment with informed consent was determined. Whether it was ethical to prescribe full doses of drugs needed to alleviate pain even if it would hasten death, or agree to limit or restrict resources for the terminally ill was also determined. RESULTS: Forty per cent of the students, 33% of the residents, and 20% of the faculty supported euthanasia. If physician-assisted suicide were legalized, 50 per cent of the students, 43 per cent of the residents and 45 percent of the faculty would not be opposed to it. Sixty-eight per cent of the students, 67 per cent of the residents and 88 per cent of the faculty would support withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment for dying patients with informed consent. Seventy-nine per cent of residents, 80 per cent of the faculty but only 54 per cent of medical students would prescribe full doses of drugs needed to alleviate pain in dying patients even if they would hasten death. Thirty-six per cent of the residents and faculty would agree to limit the use of medical resources for the terminally ill but only sixteen per cent of medical students would do so. CONCLUSIONS: The acceptance of euthanasia was inversely proportional to the clinical experience of the respondents: 40 per cent among students but only 20 per cent by the faculty. Withholding and withdrawing of life-sustaining treatment was most acceptable to the faculty (88 per cent) but it was also favored by most of the students and residents (68 and 67 per cent respectively). Eighty per cent of the faculty, 79 per cent of the residents, but only 50 per cent of the students considered that prescribing full doses of drugs to alleviate pain if they knew it would hasten death, was ethical. The medical profession should take notice of evolving concepts in end-of-life management.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed1978

Medical students, medical records and clinical skills.

140 Liverpool medical undergraduates from all three clinical years completed a two part questionnaire. The first part gave their opinion on the contents of medical case records and how they personally recorded and used them. The second part showed the usefulness to students of their teachers' assessments of their clinical skills. The results indicated that the present case record and assessment of clinical skills were unhelpful in the students' education. The type of record-keeping which students thought best was very similar to the problem-orientated medical record (POMR). The kind of assessment of clinical skills which they would like was very similar to the educational audit linked with POMR. In view of these findings, the introduction of POMR into the undergraduate curriculum is strongly advocated.

Clinical Competence↗
PubMed2002

Towards more empathic medical students: a medical student hospitalization experience.

OBJECTIVE: We designed a curricular exercise intended to expose healthy medical students, near the end of their basic science training, to the experience of hospitalization. We attempted to assess how a standardized hospitalization, for medical students just about to start their clinical rotations, was experienced by student participants. DESIGN: A qualitative observational design was used, both to explore the perceptions of the hospitalized students and to generate hypotheses for further exploration. SETTING: University and affiliated hospitals. PARTICIPANTS: Second-year medical students, towards the end of their basic science training. OUTCOME MEASURES: Qualitative assessment of hospitalization experience. RESULTS: Among key themes expressed by student participants were the following: they felt a profound loss of privacy; they found the nursing staff to be caring, attentive and professional, and repeatedly commented about how much time the nurses took to talk and listen to them and to take a complete history; in contrast they were particularly upset about the distance and coldness they felt from the medical staff; they expect this experience to affect their own future practice as physicians. When asked how this might change their attitudes in the future, students' comments generally reflected a primary concern with improving the human aspects of the patient experience. CONCLUSIONS: Student participants in a standardized inpatient hospitalization generally experienced strong feelings about issues of privacy, and about interactions with medical and nursing staff, which they expect to have an important impact on their own professional development.

Curriculum↗
PubMed1988

Inner city deprivation and medical education: a survey of medical students by medical students.

A total of 330 preclinical and clinical medical students and house officers at St Mary's Hospital were surveyed by questionnaire to assess their knowledge and experience of inner city deprivation and health, and their opinions on the role of the doctor in responding to these problems. The response rate was 87%. Over 75% of the respondents had had no experience of inner city living conditions before coming to medical school, and they gained little experience during the medical course until well into the clinical years. Most preclinical students wanted more contact with the community early in the course; less than one-third of the clinical students wanted this. The differences in knowledge and attitudes between the year groups are discussed and possible reorientation in medical education is considered.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
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Computer-assisted diabetes nutrition education increases knowledge and self-efficacy of medical students.

Medical students and physicians need to improve their understanding of the role of nutrition and the multidisciplinary team in diabetes care. To assist in this learning, an interactive computer program was developed that focused on prescribing diets for patients with diabetes. Parallel 10-item knowledge tests and an 8-item self-efficacy scale were used to evaluate the efficacy of the computer program among 41 third-year medical students. Mean knowledge scores increased significantly after using the computer program. Posttest knowledge scores for the medical students approached the level achieved by general practice dietitians with no diabetes specialty training. Mean self-efficacy scores increased significantly. The mean time spent on the educational component of the program was under 30 minutes. Computer-assisted diabetes nutrition education proved to be an efficient and effective method for teaching basic nutrition competencies to medical students. This program is available on the World Wide Web (http:/(/)medicine.aecom.yu.edu/diabetes/DEC.htm ) and may be a useful means for providing basic diabetes nutrition education to primary healthcare providers from a variety of disciplines as well as for medical students.

Computer-Assisted Instruction↗
PubMed1994

Healthcare reform and practice choices: a survey of osteopathic medical students.

Medical students are major stakeholders in the changing world of healthcare. Initiatives to change the specialty makeup and geographic distribution of the physician workforce, changes in the organization of healthcare delivery systems, and financing systems for healthcare will profoundly alter their practice environment while they are in school and just beginning to make career decisions. The decisions of osteopathic medical students, who currently make up 30% of the profession, will shape the profession's response to the new initiatives and determine its place in emerging healthcare systems. The authors surveyed first- and second-year osteopathic medical students to ascertain their perceived knowledge, opinions, and intentions as they relate to healthcare reform. They discovered that increasing numbers of students intend to practice in primary care fields. The student respondents support some of the major changes proposed by reformers in greater numbers than physicians as a whole, and have different priorities that they would like to see addressed in reform. This study reveals links between respondents' intentions to practice primary care and support for specific reform items, but the results show no link between anticipated indebtedness and respondents' intentions to enter primary care or specialty fields. The authors conclude that healthcare reform, although still in debate, has already exerted an influence on the decision-making processes of medical students.

Attitude↗
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Euthanasia and relief of suffering: attitudes of medical students.

Medical students, from the first, second and third year classes of the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, answered a questionnaire which included testing knowledge and attitudes about euthanasia and the relief of suffering. More than 60% of each class participated, a total of two hundred. Ninety three percent of the students knew the definition of euthanasia but 50 percent could not tell the difference between active and passive euthanasia. Students in the first year were better oriented than their counterparts in the third year (58 percent versus 44 percent). Seventy percent of the 100 students who could differentiate between active and passive euthanasia thought that active euthanasia should not be considered murder, but 69 percent were cognizant it was so considered in Puerto Rico. Eighty-three percent of first year students but only 61 percent of third year students thought that physicians should alleviate suffering of terminally ill patients. Medical schools should provide a serious, unprejudiced and complete discussion of euthanasia and other life and death issues in their curricula. A humane orientation of medical students should be given as much emphasis as other aspects of professional training.

Attitude to Death↗
PubMed2002

Principles for planning the teaching of evidence-based medicine/clinical epidemiology for MPH and medical students.

Medical decision-making requires increasing skills in communication, information retrieval, and formulating and answering focused clinical questions. Medical students need increasing exposure to the principles of evidence-based medicine and methodologic training in epidemiology and biostatistics in order to cope with the explosion of medical information and in order to appraise, interpret, and perform clinical research. This review summarizes the principles applied to teaching these subjects to medical students, as well as to students in Master's programs who will pursue careers in public health or clinical research.

Biometry↗