BACKGROUND There is a growing need for primary care physicians, but only a small percentage of graduating medical students enter careers in primary care. PURPOSE To assess whether a Primary Care Intraclerkship within the Medicine clerkship can significantly improve students' attitudes by analyzing scores on pre- and post-tests. METHODS Students on the Medicine clerkship at the University of...

BACKGROUND The workforce of 'physician--scientists' is ageing and decreasing in numbers. The responsibility to combat this trend rests on future generations of healthcare professionals and it is therefore valuable to evaluate medical students' attitudes towards research. OBJECTIVE To establish the attitudes of University of Cape Town (UCT) medical students towards research and to investigate ...

Nurse educators are uniquely positioned to improve obesity-related attitudes and beliefs among prelicensure nursing students. A bariatric sensitivity intervention using 6 trigger films with facilitated debriefing was designed and delivered to 70 first-semester baccalaureate nursing students. Attitudes and beliefs significantly improved immediately after the intervention on 3 of the 5 attitude m...

AIM To investigate whether the introduction of a vertical subject on research in biomedicine and founding of The Cochrane Collaboration branch at the University of Split School of Medicine influenced students' knowledge and attitudes toward evidence-based medicine (EBM), including the use of research literature. METHODS We used a 26-item questionnaire on EBM knowledge and attitudes to survey ...

BACKGROUND Medical students' attitudes and beliefs about homeless people may be shaped by the attitudes of their teachers and one of the most common sites for learning about homeless patients is the emergency department. The objective of this study was to determine if medical students in the preclinical and clinical years and emergency medicine faculty and residents have different attitudes and...

background and purpose: the internet is a useful tool for developing a variety of learning experiences and as a source of information and as a means of facilitated communication between students and teachers. the aim of this research was to investigate the level of knowledge, attitudes and practice of the internet use among bachelors’ degree students in shahid beheshti school of health . method...

oral health as an essential indicator of public health significantly affects public health. adequate knowledge, attitude and practice can effectively prevent many oral diseases. therefore, this study examines students’ knowledge, attitude and practice toward oral health. the study used a descriptive – analytical method and immediate sample available for gathering data. this study included the v...

BACKGROUND Physicians' attitudes, knowledge and skills are powerful determinants of quality of care for older patients. Previous studies found that using educational interventions to improve attitude is a difficult task. No previous study sought to determine if a skills-oriented educational intervention improved student attitudes towards elderly patients. METHODS This study evaluated the effe...

BACKGROUND There is a growing acknowledgement that doctors need to develop leadership and management competences to become more actively involved in the planning, delivery and transformation of patient services. We undertook a systematic review of what is known concerning the knowledge, skills and attitudes of medical students regarding leadership and management. Here we report the results pert...

BACKGROUND Health care professionals with positive attitudes towards the functional abilities of patients with low back pain are more likely to encourage activity and avoidance of rest as per recommended guidelines. This study investigated whether medical student training fosters positive attitudes towards patients with back pain and their ability to function. METHODS First (n = 202) and fina...