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Polona Selic Anja Cerne Zalika Klemenc-Ketis Davorina Petek Igor Svab 1Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia; 2Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Maribor, Maribor 2000, Slovenia; 3Community Health Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia Dear editor On behalf of all authors, it is a great joy to explain our views and concept to interested readers. In the article "Attitudes toward professionalism in medical students and its associations with personal characteristics and values: a national multicentre study from Slovenia raising the question of the need to rethink professionalism" we aimed to find out whether personal values and basic personality traits are associated with attitudes toward professionalism in medical students. The broader topic of our research interest was whether it would be possible to affect attitudes through values, taking into account that late adolescence/young adulthood is developmentally a very challenging phase of life. Specifically, the study years are known as an important period of transition from adolescence to young adulthood which can very often be difficult, due to interactions between an individual’s psychological characteristics and common stressors such as academic demands, changes in lifestyle, moving away from home, separating from family, inadequate living conditions, physical and emotional problems, and financial concerns. Aside from personality, coping, motivation, and approach to learning were also characteristics shown to partially predict future professional performance, so that university faculty members should become better role models and inspire their students and peers. In our study, only the value profession/work remained significant after modeling, showing that this value must be important for students of medicine to deal with the heavy burdens and requirements of medical studies. It also shown that students are aware that the profession they are being trained for is labor-intensive. However, as this was a cross-sectional study, no firm conclusions were drawn and further studies should be done in this area. The results presented in the article are part of a longitudinal study. In their Letter to the Editor of the Advances in Medical Education and Practice Journal, Kiran Pillai, Muhammed Kermali, and Ahsan Rashid, medical students at St George’s, University of London, proposed that the authors should have (i) split the national sample and analyzed samples from two faculties separately, (ii) adapted the questionnaire to reduce the approximate completion time, in order to increase Correspondence: Polona Selic Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Poljanski nasip 58, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia Email polona.selic@mf.uni-lj.si Advances in Medical Education and Practice Dovepress open access to scientific and medical research

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&lt;p&gt;Attitudes toward professionalism in medical students and its associations with personal characteristics and values: what actually makes a difference? [Response to Letter]&lt;/p&gt;