The attitudes of medical students in Europe toward the clinical importance of histology
| Autor: | Erich Brenner, Luis Alfonso Arraez Aybar, Bernard J. Moxham, Emmanouil-Nikoloussi En, Friedrich Paulsen, Tomáš Kučera, And Andy Chirculescu, Stojanka Arsic, Odile Plaisant, Hana Brichova, Michael Scholz, Raffaele De Caro, Baptiste Lignier, Diogo Pais, Bueno-López Jl, Jordy Borg, Isabel Stabile |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0301 basic medicine
Medical education Histology business.industry 4. Education Teaching method education General Medicine 3. Good health 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Embryology Health care Gross anatomy Medicine 030101 anatomy & morphology 030212 general & internal medicine Thurstone scale Anatomy Clinical competence business Curriculum Biomedical sciences |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Anatomy. 30:635-643 |
| ISSN: | 0897-3806 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/ca.22889 |
| Popis: | Although there have been many studies reporting the attitudes of medical students to the clinical importance of gross anatomy, little is known about their opinions concerning the clinical importance of embryology. Using Thurstone and Chave methods to assess attitudes, nearly 1,600 medical students across Europe in the early stages of their training provided responses to a survey that tested the hypothesis that they do not regard embryology as highly clinically relevant. Indeed, we further proposed that student attitudes to gross anatomy are much more positive than those toward embryology. Our findings show that our hypotheses hold, regardless of the university and country surveyed and regardless of the teaching methods employed for embryology. Clearly, embryology has a significant part to play in medical education in terms of understanding prenatal life, of appreciating how the organization of the mature human body has developed, and of providing essential information for general medical practice, obstetrics and pediatrics, and teratology. However, while newly recruited medical students understand the importance of gross anatomy in the development of professional competence, understanding the importance of embryology requires teachers, medical educationalists, and devisors of medical curricula to pay special attention to informing students of the significant role played by embryology in attaining clinical competence and achieving the knowledge and understanding of the biomedical sciences that underpins becoming a learned member of a health care profession. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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