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Discrediting the Notion "Working with 'Crazies' Will Make You"Crazy"": Addressing Stigma and Enhancing Empathy in Medical Student Education
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Cutler, Janis L.; Harding, Kelli J.; Mozian, Sharon A.; Wright, Leslie L.; Pica, Adrienne G.; Masters, Scott R.; Graham, Mark J. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2009
People with mental illness around the world continue to suffer from stigmatization and limited care. Previous studies utilizing self-report questionnaires indicate that many medical students regard clinical work with psychiatric patients as unappealing, while the professionalism literature has documented a general decline in students' capacity for…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Empathy, Medical Education, Medical Students
Understanding the Experience of Being Taught by Peers: The Value of Social and Cognitive Congruence
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Lockspeiser, Tai M.; O'Sullivan, Patricia; Teherani, Arianne; Muller, Jessica – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2008
Background: Medical schools use supplemental peer-teaching programs even though there is little research on students' actual experiences with this form of instruction. Purpose: To understand the student experience of being taught by peers instead of by faculty. Methods: We conducted focus groups with first- and second-year medical students…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Student Attitudes, Medical Schools, Focus Groups
"Enough Is Enough, I Don't Want Any Audience": Exploring Medical Students' Explanations of Consent-Related Behaviours
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Knight, L. V.; Rees, C. E. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2008
Medical students are often faced with an ethical dilemma within the clinical setting--to learn from as many patients as possible but to learn only with consenting patients. Although studies have examined patients' and students' views about informed consent, none have examined how medical students talk about consent-related behaviours in…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Student Attitudes, Focus Groups, Interpersonal Relationship
Factors Determining Students' Global Satisfaction with Clerkships: An Analysis of a Two Year Students' Ratings Database
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Durak, Halil Ibrahim; Vatansever, Kevser; van Dalen, Jan; van der Vleuten, Cees – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2008
Clerkships would benefit from teachers' improved understanding of the didactic aspects of their task. The purpose of this study is to identify factors that determine the teaching quality of clerkships and to examine the predictive value of these factors for students' global satisfaction. Thus, results would be further reflected to clinical…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Teacher Effectiveness, Participant Satisfaction, Questionnaires
Problem-Based Learning at the Receiving End: A "Mixed Methods" Study of Junior Medical Students' Perspectives
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Maudsley, Gillian; Williams, Evelyn M. I.; Taylor, David C. M. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2008
Qualitative insights about students' personal experience of inconsistencies in implementation of problem-based learning (PBL) might help refocus expert discourse about good practice. Aim: This study explored how junior medical students conceptualize: PBL; good tutoring; and less effective sessions. Methods: Participants comprised junior medical…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
Students Who Wish to Specialize in Forensic Medicine vs. Their Fellow Students: Motivations, Attitudes and Reactions during Autopsy Practice
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Papadodima, Stavroula A.; Sergentanis, Theodoros N.; Iliakis, Roussos G.; Sotiropoulos, Konstantinos C.; Spiliopoulou, Chara A. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2008
Purpose: To investigate the particular features of students who express the desire to follow a forensic career. Methods and materials: Three hundred and four 6th-year students attending the compulsory practice in forensic medicine in the academic year 2005-2006 were asked to fill in a self-administered questionnaire at the end of the course.…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Persuasive Discourse, Medicine, Fear