Emotionally Difficult Experiences Faced by Medical Students During Training
Purpose: To investigate (1) emotions-triggering situations faced by medical students; (2) their prevalence across training; (3) whether they aroused student׳s emotions, and (4) whether students׳ reactions varied across training. Method: A pilot study analysed 60 written reports from 4th-year medical...
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| author | Telma Kremer Sílvia Mamede Jarbas S. Roriz Filho Álvaro J. Madeiro Leite |
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| description | Purpose: To investigate (1) emotions-triggering situations faced by medical students; (2) their prevalence across training; (3) whether they aroused student׳s emotions, and (4) whether students׳ reactions varied across training.
Method: A pilot study analysed 60 written reports from 4th-year medical students from the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil, regarding recent emotionally difficult training experiences. Six types of emotions-triggering situations were chosen. A diary of a fictitious student reporting each situation was prepared, with two different endings – either a neutral or an emotional development. In a web-survey, 188 medical students evaluated those diary-entries (3 in a neutral; 3 in an emotional version), rating how frequently they had encountered similar situations and the emotions triggered by the reading. Data were analysed using Chi-square, t-tests and ANOVA.
Results: Frequency of similar experiences depended on situation type (p<.001) varying across training in 4 of the 6 situations. All situations were emotion-triggering, regardless of whether students had or not experienced them before. A significant main effect of training showed that students at different phases reacted differently; at the clinical phase emotional arousal was higher than in clerkship for 2 situations.
Discussion: Awareness of situations considered emotionally difficult may provide information for the development of educational interventions that emotionally support medical students. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c5ffafe260f54e38a2ee742677404ec72023-01-02T17:46:52ZengKing Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health SciencesHealth Professions Education2452-30112016-06-0121243210.1016/j.hpe.2016.01.010Emotionally Difficult Experiences Faced by Medical Students During TrainingTelma Kremer0Sílvia Mamede1Jarbas S. Roriz Filho2Álvaro J. Madeiro Leite3Institute of Medical Education Research Rotterdam, Erasmus MC, The NederlandsInstitute of Medical Education Research Rotterdam, Erasmus MC and Department of Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The NederlandsFederal University of Ceará, BrazilFederal University of Ceará, BrazilPurpose: To investigate (1) emotions-triggering situations faced by medical students; (2) their prevalence across training; (3) whether they aroused student׳s emotions, and (4) whether students׳ reactions varied across training. Method: A pilot study analysed 60 written reports from 4th-year medical students from the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil, regarding recent emotionally difficult training experiences. Six types of emotions-triggering situations were chosen. A diary of a fictitious student reporting each situation was prepared, with two different endings – either a neutral or an emotional development. In a web-survey, 188 medical students evaluated those diary-entries (3 in a neutral; 3 in an emotional version), rating how frequently they had encountered similar situations and the emotions triggered by the reading. Data were analysed using Chi-square, t-tests and ANOVA. Results: Frequency of similar experiences depended on situation type (p<.001) varying across training in 4 of the 6 situations. All situations were emotion-triggering, regardless of whether students had or not experienced them before. A significant main effect of training showed that students at different phases reacted differently; at the clinical phase emotional arousal was higher than in clerkship for 2 situations. Discussion: Awareness of situations considered emotionally difficult may provide information for the development of educational interventions that emotionally support medical students.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452301116300141Emotions-triggering situationsMedical students׳ emotionsMedical training |
| spellingShingle | Telma Kremer Sílvia Mamede Jarbas S. Roriz Filho Álvaro J. Madeiro Leite Emotionally Difficult Experiences Faced by Medical Students During Training Health Professions Education Emotions-triggering situations Medical students׳ emotions Medical training |
| title | Emotionally Difficult Experiences Faced by Medical Students During Training |
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| title_short | Emotionally Difficult Experiences Faced by Medical Students During Training |
| title_sort | emotionally difficult experiences faced by medical students during training |
| topic | Emotions-triggering situations Medical students׳ emotions Medical training |
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