Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ627377
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2001
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The Loss of Student Idealism in the 3rd-Year Clinical Clerkships.
Griffith, Charles H., III; Wilson, John F.
Evaluation & the Health Professions, v24 n1 p61-71 Mar 2001
Studied how student attitudes toward different types of patients and the medical profession change during clinical rotations. Responses of 88 third-year medical students show that students became less idealistic toward the elderly and people with chronic pain and less idealistic toward the profession. (SLD)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Clinical Experience, Medical Education, Medical Students, Older Adults, Pain, Patients, Student Attitudes
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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