Psychological determinants of professional and personal medical students’ growth: resources and development risks

15 . 4 Personal growth and professional development

In this chapter, the twin concepts of personal growth and professional development will be examined. In many ways this is timely since governments worldwide are devising largely regulatory ways of ‘driving up’ and sustaining the quality of health care that health professionals provide.(1) However, a theme running throughout the discussion here will be that political pressure for what has been t...

Medical Students and Suicide Prevention: Training, Education, and Personal Risks

individual qualities and integrative motivation and their prediction of non-linguistic outcomes of learning english in intermediate iranian students: a psychological perspective

abstract this study investigated the predictability of variables from a motivational framework as well as individuals qualities to predict three non-linguistic outcomes of language learning. gardners socio-educational model with its measures has been used in the current study. individual qualities presented in this study include (1) age, (2) gender, and (3) language learning experience. the...

The association between parental socioeconomic status (SES) and medical students' personal and professional development.

INTRODUCTION In order to commit to their mission and placement requirements, medical education policy-makers are required to understand the background and character of students in order to admit, cultivate and support them efficiently and effectively. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study sample consisted of 408 homogeneous medical students with the same level of education, occupation, school and ...

Assessing the Development of Medical Students’ Personal and Professional Skills by Portfolio

The introduction of a new domain of learning for Personal and Professional Skills in the medical program at the University of Auckland in New Zealand has involved the compilation of a portfolio for assessment. This departure from the traditional assessment methods predominantly used in the past has been challenging to design, introduce, and maintain as a relevant and authentic assessment method...