Survey of ethical issues reported by Indian medical students: basis for design of a new curriculum

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anuradha Rose ◽  
Kuryan George ◽  
Arul Dhas T ◽  
Anna Benjamin Pulimood ◽  
Gagandeep Kang
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Indian Medical ◽  
New Curriculum

ASSESSMENT OF MEDICAL STUDENTS IN A NEW CURRICULUM

1980 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles E. Engel ◽  
Grahame I. Feletti ◽  
Stephen R. Leeder
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
New Curriculum

scholarly journals Rising concern of nomophobia amongst Indian medical students

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 705 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neelima Sharma ◽  
Pooja Sharma ◽  
Neha Sharma ◽  
R Wavare
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Indian Medical

scholarly journals Effect of epidemiology batch posting in improving attitude towards research among medical students

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 1158
Author(s):  
Aparnavi P. ◽  
Venkatesh U. ◽  
Priyanka S. ◽  
Shalini S.
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Medical Curriculum ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Rank Test ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Students ◽  
Indian Medical ◽  
Wilcoxon Sign Rank

Background: Epidemiology batch posting (EBP) is conducted only in a few Indian medical colleges for undergraduate students to orient them with research methodologies. EBP is designed to overcome the lacuna in knowledge on attitude towards scientific research amongst medical students. The objective of the study was to study the effect of EBP in improving attitude towards research among medical students.Methods: A pre-post study was conducted on a batch of 40 students (consecutive sampling technique) posted for EBP in Department of Community Medicine, at VMMC and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi during October-November 2017. This was well above the required sample size of 16 calculated using G Power 3.1. Data was collected using R-ATR (revised attitude towards research) Data was found to be non-parametric by applying tests of normality. Hence Wilcoxon sign rank test was used to find the statistical significance in change of attitude between pre and post-tests.Results: Participants mean age was 20.50±1.58 yrs and 75% of them were males. The median attitude towards research usefulness increased from 5.25 to 6.75 following EBP. In the domain of positive predisposition towards research, there was an overall positive change in attitude from a median of 4.00 to 5.25. A negative change was shown in ‘research anxiety’ domain, from a median score of 5.00 to 3.00.Conclusions: Authors recommend that Indian medical curriculum should mandate a small group learning model such as EBP for all undergraduate medical students to bring about a positive attitude towards research and to reduce their anxiety levels.

Ethical Issues in Physician Billing Under Fee-For-Service Plans

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-104
Author(s):  
Joseph Heath
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Professional Culture ◽  
Physician Training ◽  
Fee For Service ◽  
Moral Obligations ◽  
Moral Dimension ◽  
Physician Billing ◽  
Clinical Accuracy

Abstract Medical ethics has become an important and recognized component of physician training. There is one area, however, in which medical students receive little guidance. There is practically no discussion of the financial aspects of medical practice. My objective in this paper is to initiate a discussion about the moral dimension of physician billing practices. I argue that physicians should expand their conception of professional responsibility in order to recognize that their moral obligations toward patients include a commitment to honest and forthright billing practices. I argue that physicians should aspire to a standard of clinical accuracy—not legal adequacy—in describing their activities. More generally, physicians should strive to promote an integrity-based professional culture, first and foremost by stigmatizing rather than celebrating creative billing practices, as well as condemning the misguided sense of solidarity that currently makes it taboo for physicians to criticize each other on this score.

Personality Differences in Male and Female Medical Students

1972 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lillian Kaufman Cartwright
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Female Student ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Personality Differences ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
General Acceptance ◽  
Interpersonal Effectiveness ◽  
Psychological Inventory

According to the results of two psychological tests administered to freshman medical students of classes 1960–67, Adjective Check List measuring self-concept, and the California Psychological Inventory, describing personality, women medical students see themselves as more willing than men to express feelings and admit weaknesses and as less likely to endorse the extremes of dominant and aggressive behavior. In addition, the female student is more likely than the male to view herself as totally committed to her goals and as relatively content with them. No differences were apparent between the sexes on a cluster of personality scales relating to interpersonal effectiveness (dominance, sociability, self-acceptance, and a sense of well-being). However, on scales that rated responsibility, socialization, and tolerance, and in two of three scales that measured achievement, women scored higher than men. Results of both tests confirmed the belief that women medical students tend to display more sensitivity to relationship values, more general acceptance of feelings, and greater alertness to moral and ethical issues than male medical students. They also value independence and individuality to a greater degree than their male colleagues or educated women in general.

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