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Professional behaviour of medical school graduates: an analysis
Author(s) -
LU YUEHUA,
MENG XIANGYING,
LIU XIA
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1994.tb02715.x
Subject(s) - quartile , scale (ratio) , realm , professional ethics , psychology , medical education , clinical psychology , medicine , political science , law , confidence interval , physics , quantum mechanics
Summary: Summary. Recent graduates (1989‐1990) of a traditional school of Chinese medicine were assessed by observers using a 10‐item scale for professional behaviour in the non‐cognitive realm. Overall, 10.7% of the graduates had low ratings on this scale. Of those who scored in the top two quartiles on this scale, 71.4% reported that ‘Professional ethics’ was the key determinant of their professional behaviour, whereas legal concerns were the prime motivator for only 3.6% of the top scorers. It was also found that students' scores in the medical ethics course correlated with their professional behaviour score to a statistically significant degree.