Changing medical students' attitudes to learning disability

Teaching learning disability to undergraduate medical students

Changing attitudes towards euthanasia among medical students in Austria.

BACKGROUND In most European countries the attitudes regarding the acceptability of active euthanasia have clearly changed in the population since World War II. Therefore, it is interesting to know which trends in attitudes prevail among the physicians of the future. METHODS The present study analyses trends in the attitudes towards active euthanasia in medical students at the Medical Universi...

Does personality predict medical students’ attitudes to learning communication skills?

Objectives: To determine whether personality is related to medical students’ attitudes towards learning communication skills and self-ratings on communication skills. Methods: 524 firstand 507 second-year medical students completed the Communications Skills Attitudes Scale and rated their own communication skills. First-year students answered the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, and second-ye...

The attitudes of medical students to research.

BACKGROUND The workforce of 'physician--scientists' is ageing and decreasing in numbers. The responsibility to combat this trend rests on future generations of healthcare professionals and it is therefore valuable to evaluate medical students' attitudes towards research. OBJECTIVE To establish the attitudes of University of Cape Town (UCT) medical students towards research and to investigate ...

Changing and sustaining medical students' knowledge, skills, and attitudes about patient safety and medical fallibility.

PURPOSE To study the effects of a patient safety and medical fallibility curriculum on second-year medical students at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine in 2003-2004. METHOD Students completed a knowledge, skills, and attitudes questionnaire before the curriculum, after the final learning experience, and one year later. A 95% confidence interval (CI) for paired difference...