Factors leading to radiology career selection: results of the 2004 National Physician Survey.
Humans; Workforce; *Career Choice; Students; Data Collection; Canada; *Radiology; Medical/psychology
Data from the 2004 National Physician Survey were used to determine when current Canadian radiologists made their decision to pursue a radiology career and to determine which factors were most influential in their decision. Most respondents reported having made this decision during their clerkship years of medical school (32.7%) or after a period of time in practice (25.4%). The most influential factors involved in this decision were perceived intellectual stimulation and workload flexibility or predictability. These results provide insight into the trainee's decision to pursue radiology and may be useful to those recruiting for radiology as well to medical students considering the field.
Maj Luke; Baerlocher Mark O
Canadian Association of Radiologists journal = Journal l'Association canadienne des radiologistes
2006
2006-06
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Learning to be present to dying patients.
Humans; Students; Terminal Care/*psychology; *Attitude to Death; *Physician's Role; Hospices; Medical/psychology
Kohn M
Minnesota medicine
2000
2000-05
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The ethical and pedagogical effects of modeling "not-so-universal" precautions.
Female; Humans; Male; Adolescent; Young Adult; United States; Focus Groups; Curriculum; Patient Safety; Students; Education; Professional; Internship and Residency; *Universal Precautions; Self Care; Human; Thematic Analysis; Student Attitudes; Ethics; Audiorecording; Practice; *Ethics; Medical; *Health Knowledge; Attitudes; Practice Patterns; Organizational; *Models; Medical/psychology; Preventive Health Care; Role Models
AIM: We sought to understand current medical students' levels of training and knowledge, and their attitudes regarding universal precautions practices and underlying professional and ethical issues. METHOD: A total of 54 US medical students at two schools were interviewed to determine the level of understanding and training students receive about universal precautions, their feelings about the effectiveness (or ineffectiveness) of universal precautions, the frequency and kinds of universal precautions used by healthcare professionals as observed by medical students, and students' perspectives about the lack of or inconsistent use of universal precautions. RESULTS: Pre-clinical students focused on safe-sex practices among students and professionals, as well as simple, important acts to protect oneself against infection and disease, such as hand-washing. Clinical students, on the other hand, had more exposure to observing and practicing universal precautions, thus presented us with more, in-depth responses pertaining to inconsistent and ineffective use of universal precautions among peers and role models. Several themes were noted from students' responses. CONCLUSION: This study confirms previously acquired data that universal precautions are not consistently or appropriately used by healthcare professionals, it is a significant and novel study in that it reveals a hidden, ethical, and clinical problem in medical education.
Aultman Julie M; Borges Nicole J
Medical teacher
2011
1905-7
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.3109/0142159X.2011.530310" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.3109/0142159X.2011.530310</a>
A genethics debate within an interdisciplinary curriculum.
AULTMAN; Curriculum; Education; Ethics; GENETICS; Genetics – Education; Genetics/education/*ethics; Humans; Julie M.; Medical; Medical – Education; Medical/*education; Medical/psychology; Molecular Biology/education; Ohio; Pharmacy/*methods/standards; Pharmacy/psychology; Students; Teaching Methods – Evaluation; Undergraduate/*methods/standards
Aultman Julie M
Medical education
2009
2009-11
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2923.2009.03504.x" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1111/j.1365-2923.2009.03504.x</a>
Derogatory and cynical humour directed towards patients: views of residents and attending doctors.
*Attitude of Health Personnel; *Social Identification; *Wit and Humor as Topic; Culture; Education; ETHICS; Hospital/*psychology; Humans; HUMOR in the workplace; MEDICAL personnel & patient; Medical Staff; Medical/methods; Medical/psychology; Physician-Patient Relations; PROFESSIONALISM; Social Perception; Students; WIT & humor; WIT & humor in medicine
CONTEXT: A study of medical students' perspectives on derogatory and cynical humour was published in 2006. The current study examines residents' and attending doctors' perspectives on the same phenomenon in three clinical departments of psychiatry, internal medicine and surgery. METHODS: Two focus groups were conducted in each of the three clinical departments, one with residents and one with attending doctors,during the 2006-07 academic year. Seventy doctors participated, including 49 residents and 21 attendings. The same semi-structured format was used in each group. Questions focused on characterisations of derogatory and cynical humour along with motives and rules for its use.All focus groups were audiotaped and the tapes transcribed. Each transcript was read independently by each researcher as part of an inductive process to discover the categories that describe and explain the uses, motives and effects of such humour. RESULTS: Three categories that appeared in the first study with medical students - locations for humour, the humour game, and not-funny humour - emerged as virtually identical,whereas two others–objects of humour and motives for humour - were more fully elaborated. DISCUSSION: Discussions of derogatory and cynical humour should occur in any department where teaching and role modelling are priorities. In addition, the tenets of appreciative inquiry and the complex responsive process,particularly as they are used at the Indiana University School of Medicine, offer medical educators valuable tools for addressing this phenomenon.
Wear Delese; Aultman Julie M; Zarconi Joseph; Varley Joseph D
Medical education
2009
2009-01
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2923.2008.03171.x" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1111/j.1365-2923.2008.03171.x</a>
Student identification of ethical issues in a primary care setting.
*Education; *Ethics; *Primary Health Care; Confidentiality; Decision Making; Graduate; Health; Humans; Insurance; Medical; Medical/psychology; Morals; Ohio; Perception; Physician Impairment; Physician-Patient Relations; Students; Thinking
Ethical issues in the clinical arena have received significant attention during the past few decades. Limited focus has been directed toward ethical issues in the primary care office setting. A study was conducted to determine the ethical perspectives through critical review discussions between medical students and their preceptors during the PCP programme. Major ethical themes and percent of occurrence emerging from an analysis of the summaries of their discussions included decision-making (40%), professional standards (16%), locus of care (12%), community responsibility (10%), and confidentiality (10%). This study adds to the evidence that while the ethical issues prevalent in the primary care setting are less dramatic than those in a hospital, they are sufficiently frequent to warrant inclusion in the curriculum, enabling students to become more sensitive to their existence.
Homenko D F; Kohn M; Rickel T; Wilkinson M L
Medical education
1997
1997-01
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2923.1997.tb00041.x" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1111/j.1365-2923.1997.tb00041.x</a>