Tolerance for Uncertainty, Personality Traits and Specialty Choice Among Medical Students

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raúl A. Borracci ◽  
Graciana Ciambrone ◽  
Eduardo B. Arribalzaga
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Specialty Choice

Personality traits are associated with cognitive empathy in medical students but not with its evolution and interventions to improve it

2021 ◽  
pp. 110410
Author(s):  
Guillaume Airagnes ◽  
Céline Buffel du Vaure ◽  
Eric Galam ◽  
Lucie Bunge ◽  
Nicolas Hoertel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Cognitive Empathy

scholarly journals Variation in personality traits of medical students between schools of medicine

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (11) ◽  
pp. 944-948 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Wilson ◽  
Barbara Griffin ◽  
Lisa Lampe ◽  
Diann Eley ◽  
Gerry Corrigan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Schools Of Medicine

scholarly journals Specialty choice and beliefs about specialties among freshman medical students

1972 ◽  
Vol 47 (7) ◽  
pp. 524-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
D B Fishman ◽  
C N Zimet
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Specialty Choice

scholarly journals Predicating Attitude Toward Learning Communication Skills in Medical Students of Shahid Beheshti University

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-25
Author(s):  
Maryam Akbarilakeh ◽  
Fahimeh Fargah ◽  
Katatyoun Razjouyan ◽  
Mitra Rahimzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Medical Training ◽  
Medical Curriculum ◽  
Attitude Scale ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Convenience Sampling

Background: The ability of communicating with people is of great importance for physicians. Predicting unknown variables like personality traits is one of the important impressive issues in choosing future medical experts in medical training. Regarding this, medical colleges have training programs all around the world. The present study aimed to investigate the attitude toward learning communication skills based on the personality traits of medical students. Materials and Methods: This correlational study was done in 2019 and the participants were medical students who were selected using a convenience sampling method. Zuckerman-Kuhlman personality questionnaire and communication skills attitude scale (CSAS) were used for data collection. CSAS was used to assess positive and negative attitudes. Results: The results showed that only the sociability dimension among the five dimensions of personality had a significant relationship with attitude toward learning communication skills (P=0.018). Moreover, significant relationships of gender (P=0.022), mother’s education level (P=0.049), and residence (P=0.036) with attitude to learning communication skills were found. Conclusion: According to the results, the dimension of demographic characteristics is effective in improving communication skills of medical students. Therefore, it is recommended that it should be considered in medical curriculum development and revision and modifications.

scholarly journals Different but similar: personality traits of​ surgeons and internists—results of a cross-sectional observational study

BMJ Open ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. e021310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin N Stienen ◽  
Felix Scholtes ◽  
Robin Samuel ◽  
Alexander Weil ◽  
Astrid Weyerbrock ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Normal Population ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Personality Profiles ◽  
Medical Specialties ◽  
Linear Discriminant

ObjectivesMedical practice may attract and possibly enhance distinct personality profiles. We set out to describe the personality profiles of surgical and medical specialties focusing on board-certified physicians.DesignProspective, observational.SettingOnline survey containing the Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI), an internationally validated measure of the Five Factor Model of personality dimensions, distributed to board-certified physicians, residents and medical students in several European countries and Canada. Differences in personality profiles were analysed using multivariate analysis of variance and Canonical Linear Discriminant Analysis on age-standardised and sex-standardised z-scores of the personality traits. Single personality traits were analysed using robust t-tests.ParticipantsThe TIPI was completed by 2345 board-certified physicians, 1453 residents and 1350 medical students, who also provided demographic information.ResultsNormal population and board-certified physicians’ personality profiles differed (p<0.001). The latter scored higher on conscientiousness, extraversion and agreeableness, but lower on neuroticism (all p<0.001). There was no difference in openness to experience. Board-certified surgical and medical doctors’ personality profiles were also different (p<0.001). Surgeons scored higher on extraversion (p=0.003) and openness to experience (p=0.002), but lower on neuroticism (p<0.001). There was no difference in agreeableness and conscientiousness. These differences in personality profiles were reproduced at other levels of training, that is, in students and training physicians engaging in surgical versus medical practice.ConclusionThese results indicate the existence of a distinct and consistent average ‘physician personality’. Despite high variability within disciplines, there are moderate but solid and reproducible differences between surgical and medical specialties.

scholarly journals Specialty choice determinants among Mexican medical students: a cross-sectional study

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Gutiérrez-Cirlos ◽  
J. Jesús Naveja ◽  
Manuel García-Minjares ◽  
Adrián Martínez-González ◽  
Melchor Sánchez-Mendiola
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical Specialty ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Specialty Choice ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Healthcare Needs ◽  
Gynecology And Obstetrics

Abstract Background The choice of medical specialty is related to multiple factors, students’ values, and specialty perceptions. Research in this area is needed in low- and middle-income countries, where the alignment of specialty training with national healthcare needs has a complex local interdependency. The study aimed to identify factors that influence specialty choice among medical students. Methods Senior students at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Faculty of Medicine answered a questionnaire covering demographics, personal experiences, vocational features, and other factors related to specialty choice. Chi-square tests and factor analyses were performed. Results The questionnaire was applied to 714 fifth-year students, and 697 provided complete responses (response rate 81%). The instrument Cronbach’s alpha was 0.8. The mean age was 24 ± 1 years; 65% were women. Eighty percent of the students wanted to specialize, and 60% had participated in congresses related to the specialty of interest. Only 5% wanted to remain as general practitioners. The majority (80%) wanted to enter a core specialty: internal medicine (29%), general surgery (24%), pediatrics (11%), gynecology and obstetrics (11%) and family medicine (4%). The relevant variables for specialty choice were grouped in three dimensions: personal values that develop and change during undergraduate training, career needs to be satisfied, and perception of specialty characteristics. Conclusions Specialty choice of medical students in a middle-income country public university is influenced by the undergraduate experience, the desire to study a subspecialty and other factors (including having skills related to the specialty and type of patients).

scholarly journals The Association Between Personality Traits and Specialty Preference Among Medical Students in Jordan

2020 ◽  
Vol Volume 13 ◽  
pp. 599-607
Author(s):  
Mohammed Nawaiseh ◽  
Rund Haddadin ◽  
Belal Al Droubi ◽  
Hussam Nawaiseh ◽  
Salameh Alarood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Personality Traits

scholarly journals BASH: badmouthing, attitudes and stigmatisation in healthcare as experienced by medical students

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Ajaz ◽  
Rhodri David ◽  
Damien Brown ◽  
Melanie Smuk ◽  
Ania Korszun
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Career Choice ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
Specialty Choice ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Medical Specialties ◽  
Negative Comments

Aims and methodWe used an online questionnaire to investigate medical students' perceptions of the apparent hierarchy between specialties, whether they have witnessed disparaging comments (‘badmouthing’ or ‘bashing’) against other specialists and whether this has had an effect on their career choice.ResultsIn total, 960 students from 13 medical schools completed the questionnaire; they ranked medical specialties according to the level of badmouthing and answered questions on their experience of specialty bashing. Psychiatry and general practice attracted the greatest number of negative comments, which were made by academic staff, doctors and students. Twenty-seven per cent of students had changed their career choice as a direct result of bashing and a further 25.5% stated they were more likely to change their specialty choice. Although 80.5% of students condemned badmouthing as unprofessional, 71.5% believed that it is a routine part of practising medicine.Clinical implicationsBashing of psychiatry represents another form of stigmatisation that needs to be challenged in medical schools. It not only has an impact on recruitment into the specialty, but also has the wider effect of stigmatising people with mental health disorders.

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