Trial Use of the Personal Qualities Assessment (PQA) in the Entrance Examination of a Japanese Medical University: Similarities to the Results in Western Countries

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuriko Fukui ◽  
Saeko Noda ◽  
Midori Okada ◽  
Nakako Mihara ◽  
Yoriko Kawakami ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Entrance Examination ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
Medical University

scholarly journals To the question of the formation of personal qualities of future doctors by means of combat sports

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 43-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
L.D. Khripunova
Keyword(s):  
Professional Activity ◽  
Combat Sports ◽  
Theoretical Substantiation ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Medical University ◽  
Difficult Situations

Purpose : to provide theoretical analysis of the notion of „assertiveness” and rationale of approaches to the development of future doctors’ assertiveness by means of combat sports (Sambo and Judo). Material : analysis of regulatory documents, literary sources. Results : the author has analysed the essence of the notion of assertiveness, and ideas about the relevance of the quality in doctors’ professional activity. The notion of assertiveness has been defined as the subject quality of an individual integrating initiative and willingness to take risks in difficult situations, self-confidence and positive attitude towards others, the ability to freely make decisions and be responsible for their consequences, persistence in protecting one’s own rights and achieve life goals. It has been shown that the key component of assertiveness manifestations are technologies of subject-subject interaction, that provide mutual correctness and effectiveness of acceptable relations. Means of the combat sports have been viewed as instruments of the development of future doctors’ personal qualities. The potentialities of assertiveness formation by means of the combat sports have been defined. Conclusions : the introduction of the combat sports elements in the professionally applied training of medical university students is an important issue of nowadays, which needs theoretical substantiation and methodical support.

scholarly journals High-Grade B-Cell Lymphoma (HGBL) with MYC and BCL2 and/or BCL6 Rearrangements Is Predominantly BCL6-Rearranged and BCL6-Expressing in Taiwan

Cancers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1620
Author(s):  
Cheng-Chih Tsai ◽  
Yung-Cheng Su ◽  
Oluwaseun Adebayo Bamodu ◽  
Bo-Jung Chen ◽  
Wen-Chiuan Tsai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
B Cell ◽  
Cell Lymphoma ◽  
Progression Free Survival ◽  
B Cell Lymphoma ◽  
Medical Decision ◽  
High Grade ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Medical University ◽  
Lost To Follow Up

This study investigated the epidemiological and clinical peculiarities of BCL2 and BCL6 rearrangement in patients with high grade B-cell lymphoma (HGBL) from Taiwan, compared with data from Western countries. Two hundred and eighty-two DLBCL cases from Taipei Medical University-affiliated hospitals (n = 179) and Tri-Service General Hospital (n = 103) were enrolled for this study. From the 282, 47 (16.7%) had MYC translocation; 24 of these harbored concurrent BCL2 and/or BCL6 translocation (double-hit, DH or triple-hit, TH). Twelve DH-HGBL cases had simultaneous MYC and BCL6 translocations, 8 harbored MYC and BCL2 rearrangement, while the remaining 4 patients exhibited TH. Together, 66.7% of DH/TH-HGBL patients were BCL6 rearrangement positive. Among these BCL6-rearranged DH/TH-HGBL patients, only 6 (37.5%) overexpressed MYC and BCL6 proteins simultaneously, indicating that MYC-BCL6 co-overexpression may not be plausible surrogate biomarker for screening BCL6-rearranged DH-HGBL. By the end of year 5, all patients with TH-HGBL, BCL2 DH-HGBL and all but one BCL6 DH-HGBL cases had expired or were lost to follow-up. Progression-free survival (PFS) was longer for the non-DH/TH-HGBL group compared with the DH/TH-HGBL group. While the patients with BCL2 DH-HGBL were lost to follow-up by day 800, their remaining TH-HGBL and BCL6 DH-HGBL peers exhibited very poor PFS, regardless of age strata. More so, patients with BCL6 rearrangement were 5.5-fold more likely associated with extranodal involvement compared with their BCL2-rearranged peers. Moreover,~60.0% of the BCL6-rearranged DH-HGBL cases were non-GCB, suggesting that including screening for BCL6 rearrangement in patients with the non-GCB phenotype may aid medical decision-making and therapeutic strategy. Contrary to contemporary data from western countries, 2 in every 3 patients with DH/TH-HGBL in Taiwan harbor BCL6 rearrangement. Consistent with present findings, we recommend mandatory screening for BCL6 rearrangement in patients with aggressive HGBL in Taiwan.

scholarly journals Understanding the Occupational Burnout Experience of Medical Specialists at the Time of Education and Career Launch: A Case Study of the Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University Students and Residents of the Alekseev Psychiatric Hospital N1

2022 ◽  
Vol 10 (E) ◽  
pp. 40-49
Author(s):  
Anzhela Avagimyan ◽  
Nataliya Kasimovskaya ◽  
Olga Naryzhenko ◽  
Ekaterina Diatlova ◽  
Raisat Adzhimuradova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitals ◽  
Burnout Syndrome ◽  
Moderate Intensity ◽  
Stressful Situation ◽  
Occupational Burnout ◽  
Professional Careers ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
Medical University

BACKGROUND: Occupational burnout in the most general terms is seen as a long-lasting stressful situation resulting from continuing occupational stress of moderate intensity. AIM: The objective of this article is to provide analysis of occupational burnout in psychiatrists and nurses of psychiatric hospitals, and the development of occupational burnout in students and residents. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The level of occupational burnout was determined using the “Attitude to work and occupational burnout” test, Seashore Group Cohesion Index, Stolin’s Self-Concept Questionnaire, and the Freiburg Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (Freiburg Personality Inventory). The study proved the existence of patterns of occupational burnout in psychiatrists and nurses of psychiatric hospitals, as well as in students and residents. RESULTS: It has been revealed that the development of the burnout syndrome is influenced by personal qualities of psychiatrists and nurses (residents and students), and the managerial features of their activities, and that occupational burnout develops in psychiatrists and nurses over the course of their professional careers, but starts to emerge during their education. The score of the Integrative Burnout Index ranges from 48.99 in students of the [BLINDED] University to 23.52 in psychiatrists of the Alekseev Psychiatric Hospital N1. Occupational burnout syndrome is spread in medical students worldwide, with its level higher than in the overall population, in students of other specialties. CONCLUSIONS: Burnout at the stage of getting the education can hinder the professional development of students, expose patients to risk, and promote the development of various personality problems in future psychiatrists and nurses. The need of preventing professional burnout at the stage of obtaining a specialty has been substantiated.

scholarly journals Quality test entrance examination for full-time second-level in Midwifery faculty – 5-year retrospective analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariusz Panczyk ◽  
Jarosława Belowska ◽  
Henryk Rebandel ◽  
Joanna Gotlib
Keyword(s):  
Quality Parameter ◽  
Entrance Examination ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Specialist Care ◽  
Test Analysis ◽  
Entrance Exam ◽  
Minimum Requirements ◽  
Medical University ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractAim. Quality assessment of the test entrance examination used for selection of candidates for full-time second-level studies in Midwifery at the Medical University of Warsaw.Material and methods. Five grade-years of candidates (N = 335, 100% of women) who took the entrance exam for Midwifery between 2009/10 and 2013/14. Data collected was related to results of the test examination for studies (total score and scores divided into thematic blocks). Parameters of descriptive statistics were set. Ease and differentiating power of questions and reliability of tests were assessed (alpha-Cronbach). Discriminatory indexes for thematic blocks of the test were set. Calculations were performed in STATISTICA 12.5.Results. The most optimal selection of questions in terms of ease and differentiating power was recorded for the 2009/10 test. None of the editions of the exam met the minimum requirements for the internal consistency of measurement. The best results concerning the reliability of the measurement was observed for the 2009/10 test. Analysis of differentiating power of questions in thematic blocks indicates the diversity of this quality parameter. Very high differentiating index was recorded for the block of questions on specialist care in 2009/10 (0.535), and the lowest in 2013/14 exam (0.150).Conclusions. 1. It is necessary to improve the quality of exam questions in terms of difficulty and differentiating power. 2. Quality of subsequent editions of the admission examination should be monitored, in particular with regard to the control of the reliability of this qualifying tool.

scholarly journals Professional competencies in the model of forming a professional-subjective attitude of the medical university students

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 02001
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Bondarenko ◽  
Lyubov Khoronko ◽  
Aleksandra Artyukhina ◽  
Yana Rodye
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Professional Competencies ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Cognitive Component ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
Medical University

The article deals with the categories of competency as the ability to apply knowledge, skills and personal qualities for successful and future professional activities and students’ professional-subjective attitude as an integrative personality trait, manifested in the willingness to master professional experience and based on the independent development of professional and personal qualities through initiative inclusion in creative professionally oriented activities. The formation of a professional-subjective attitude provides the basis for the development of professional competencies, which, in turn, are the key goal and the result of the educational process. The paper proposes a model for the formation of the professional-subjective attitude of the medical university students. The motivational, cognitive, professional-practical and professional-medical components are distinguished. The motivational component includes the motivation of a student to learn, to get a profession, to form a professional-subjective attitude and also involves self-estimation of the attitude by the student himself. The cognitive component considers the process of forming a professional-subjective attitude in the student’s educational activity (moreover, this process is conscious). The professional-practical component involves the formation of a professional-subjective attitude of students through activities in the educational environment attitude and problems solving.

scholarly journals NARRATIVE-BASED MEDICAL WRITING: AN EMP CASE STUDY

2021 ◽  
pp. 051
Author(s):  
Irina Torubarova ◽  
Anna Stebletsova
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Medical Writing ◽  
Healthcare Practitioner ◽  
Medical Worker ◽  
Writing Assignments ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
Essential Contribution ◽  
Medical University ◽  
Patients Experience

The article discusses a case study employing medical writing for the development of skills, attitudes and values that are essential for the healthcare worker’s identity. The emphasis is made on empathy, communication skills and communicative tolerance. The authors argue that these attitudes can be enhanced in the academic curriculum of medical universities. The possible way to improve personal qualities essential for the future career of a medical worker is through narrative-based medical writing, which can be implemented in the course of the English for Specific (Medical) Purposes (ES(M)P) course.  The 13-week course ‘Narrative-based medical writing’ designed and performed at Voronezh Medical University involved 60 undergraduate students. The participants had to complete 10 to 13 writing assignments describing patients’ experience of a disease. The key findings of the study have demonstrated a more competent usage of reflective writing techniques, a higher level of empathy manifestation and communicative tolerance comparing to the baseline measurements. These results support the idea that EMP with a narrative-based writing module can make an essential contribution to the development of communicative tolerance and empathic manifestation, thereby enabling the development of the crucial professional attitudes of a healthcare practitioner.

scholarly journals Educational “Looking Glass”, or “They” and “We”

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (11) ◽  
pp. 35-43
Author(s):  
Vladimir F. Zubarev ◽  
Gennadiy A. Bondarev
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Negative Judgment ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
Medical University ◽  
Looking Glass ◽  
Pedagogical Literature

One of the most important and, according to psychological and pedagogical literature, the least investigated aspects of the domestic system of higher education is the sphere of personal interrelations at the level “teacher – student”. The formation of this type of social relations is a complicated process equally depending on both interested sides, but it is this process that eventually determines the efficiency of the educational process. At present anonymous questioning of both students and teachers is by far the only method of high quality psychodiagnostics of this sphere of educational space. The received findings not only give a more comprehensive idea of the personal characteristics of modern students and the teaching staff of higher schools but can also provide some essential corrective amendments to the organization of the educational process. Anonymous questioning of 400 students of the medical and pediatric faculties of Kursk State Medical University (KSMU) has revealed a number of both quite predictable and fairly unexpected facts concerning the psychological atmosphere at the level “teacher – student”. The received findings to some extent alter the firmly established idea of an elevated ambitiousness of the modern generation of students. Corroborative to it is the objective fact of a lowered personal self-esteem in 38% questioned students of KSMU. The fact of the negative judgment of professional and personal qualities of some teachers (16% of respondents) is alarming and needing thorough consideration and practical conclusions. The comparatively low demand of the recommended to students main academic teaching manuals of the studied disciplines (56%) and the actually unclaimed lectures delivered to them (8%) can be to a great extent explained by their competitive disability in comparison with the short in form but superficial in the contents various kinds of “homebrew” guidance-manuals permanently ranking first in the teachers’ annual rating reports.

Accentuating Your Masculine Side

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chongzeng Bi ◽  
Oscar Ybarra ◽  
Yufang Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Gender Role ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Agency And Communion

Recent research investigating self-judgment has shown that people are more likely to base their evaluations of self on agency-related traits than communion-related traits. In the present research, we tested the hypothesis that agency-related traits dominate self-evaluation by expanding the purview of the fundamental dimensions to consider characteristics typically studied in the gender-role literature, but that nevertheless should be related to agency and communion. Further, we carried out these tests on two samples from China, a cultural context that, relative to many Western countries, emphasizes the interpersonal or communion dimension. Despite the differences in traits used and cultural samples studied, the findings generally supported the agency dominates self-esteem perspective, albeit with some additional findings in Study 2. The findings are discussed with regard to the influence of social norms and the types of inferences people are able to draw about themselves given such norms.

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