Personal qualities of first-year medical students and academic performance : A 6-year follow-up survey
The bulletin of the Yamaguchi Medical School Volume 56 Issue 1-2
Page 5-13
published_at 2009
Title
Personal qualities of first-year medical students and academic performance : A 6-year follow-up survey
Creators
Fukumoto Yohei
Creators
Murakami Fujio
Creators
Ono Sayako
Creators
Sanechika Momoe
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Creator Keywords
personal qualities
motivations
responsibility
amenability
early-exposure practical training
Although it is very important to determine if medical students possess the personal qualities to be competent physicians, no reliable method of doing so has been established. In this study, we evaluated first-year students to determine if they had the personal qualities─the non-cognitive abilities─required of physicians. In addition, we examined the relationship between these personal qualities and students' academic record at Yamaguchi University School of Medicine. Regarding the method of evaluation, students were requested to write a report on an opinion column published in the Asahi Newspaper in 2002. Assessment of three non-cognitive personal qualities was based on their responses in this report. Then, the assessments of students' personal qualities were compared with their grades in the Introduction to Medicine II course, taught in the first year, and with their subsequent advancement status (i.e., whether they repeated an academic year) and their result on the National Board Examination…
Languages
eng
Resource Type
departmental bulletin paper
Publishers
Yamaguchi University School of Medicine
Date Issued
2009
File Version
Version of Record
Access Rights
open access
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Schools
医学部附属病院