OBJECTIVE Positive attitudes towards General Practice can be understood as a prerequisite for becoming a General Practitioner (GP) and for collaboration with GPs later on. This study aimed to assess attitudes of medical students at the beginning and the end of medical school. METHODS A total of 160 1(st) year students at Hannover Medical School were surveyed. Their attitudes were compared to ...

BACKGROUND Phramongkutklao College of Medicine is a military medical school and also a health promotion school. As a result, encouraging these medical students to have good attitude toward exercise is considered an important mission for the college. OBJECTIVES To study the attitudes of medical students at Phramongkutklao College of Medicine about exercise for health promotion. MATERIAL AND ...

The purpose of this study was to explore both the effects of learning WWW and the computer attitudes on technology education programs for elementary students in Taiwan. Both pretest and posttest were conducted in this study. 153 subjects were selected from fifth and sixth grade in Sir-Ko elementary school at Taichung County. The Computer Attitude Scale (CAS) was used to serve as the pretest and...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the mediating role of difficulties in emotion regulation in the relationship between dysfunctional attitudes and anxiety sensitivity among students of the islamic azad university of hamadan. the research method was correlation. the statistical population of this study consisted of all the university students from among which 200 students (120 females, 80 ma...

The development of the EURACT (European Academy of Teachers in General Practice) Educational Agenda helped many family medicine departments in development of clerkship and the aims and objectives of family medicine teaching. Our aims were to develop and validate a tool for assessment of students' attitudes towards family medicine and to evaluate the impact of the clerkship on students' attitude...

BACKGROUND In medical training, statistics is considered a very difficult course to learn and teach. Current studies have found that students' attitudes toward statistics can influence their learning process. Measuring, evaluating and monitoring the changes of students' attitudes toward statistics are important. Few studies have focused on the attitudes of postgraduates, especially medical post...

The Ministry of Higher Education in Malaysia has called for the implementation of a soft skills module in all public universities in Malaysia. In response to this and as part of curriculum development efforts for a new integrated program for 2011, a study was undertaken to improve the University of Malaya (UM) Faculty of Dentistry's communication skills course. One of the study objectives was t...

The development of valid and reliable instruments for attitudes’ measurement has been proven crucial for the quality of research. This study is dealing with the development and validation of an attitude toward chemistry instrument. By using this instrument, 11th grade Greek students’ attitudes regarding the difficulty, the interest, the usefulness of chemistry course, and the importance of chem...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE Patient-centred attitudes have been shown to decline during medical training in high-income countries, yet little is known about attitudes among West African medical students. We sought to measure student attitudes towards patient-centredness and examine validity of the 18-item Patient-Practitioner Orientation Scale (PPOS) in this context. PARTICIPANTS/SETTING 430 medical...

This study examined whether students' attitudes about community health practice, attitudes toward people who are indigent and homeless, and perceived leadership skills changed after participation in a planned interdisciplinary community health experience with an urban homeless or formerly homeless population. Data were collected from medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, an...