Intolerance of Uncertainty and Self-Compassion in Medical Students: Is There a Relationship and Why Should We Care?

Autor: Maria Poluch, Jordan Feingold-Link, Dimitrios Papanagnou MD MPH, Jared Kilpatrick MD, Deborah Ziring MD, Nethra Ankam MD
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development, Vol 9 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2382-1205
23821205
DOI: 10.1177/23821205221077063
Popis: Managing the uncertainty of clinical practice represents a significant source of stress for clinicians, including medical students transitioning into the clinical workplace. Self-compassion, a strategy to better cope with stress and burnout, may represent a skill that can be leveraged to better prepare learners for the uncertainty inherent in clinical practice. A negative correlation between intolerance of uncertainty and self-compassion has been demonstrated in undergraduate students and in the general population. An examination of this relationship in medical students may help inform future curricular development for addressing burnout in undergraduate medical education. We electronically administered the Intolerance of Uncertainty Short Scale and the Self-Compassion Short Form to 273 third-year medical students from a single institution and analyzed data via regression. A significant negative correlation was found between intolerance of uncertainty and self-compassion (p
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