Measuring 'humanism' in medical residents
| Autor: | Lynch Ec, Eugene V. Boisaubin, Joseph M. Merrill, Laux Lf, John Thornby, Roessler R |
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| Rok vydání: | 1986 |
| Předmět: |
Gerontology
Medical education Physician-Patient Relations business.industry Attitude of Health Personnel media_common.quotation_subject Antipathy Internship and Residency Compassion General Medicine Certification Humanism United States Maturity (psychological) Likert scale Evaluation Studies as Topic Scale (social sciences) Internal Medicine Medicine Clinical Competence Clinical competence business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Southern medical journal. 79(2) |
| ISSN: | 0038-4348 |
| Popis: | The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) has charged directors of residency programs with evaluating "humanistic attributes" in residents seeking certification. To investigate whether traditional measures of residents' performance assess humanistic attributes, 38 second- and third-year medical residents completed the Totalitarian-Authoritarian-Dogmatism (TAD) and Rokeach tests for attitudinal assessment. Five primary sources were used to measure performance. When the measures of performance and attitude were correlated, two negative correlations with "antipathy toward patients" were found: professional maturity (r = -.43, P less than .01) and compassion and concern for patients (r = -.35, P less than .04). The TAD Opinionnaire and the special performance evaluation detect "nonhumanistic dimensions" that routine faculty assessments do not. Since the new Likert scale distributed by ABIM does not differ materially from the rating form used at Baylor for 2 1/2 years, it is unlikely that "humanistic attributes" will be measured by the ABIM's new scale. |
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