Journal of General Practice

Changing on Patient-Centred Attitudes on Same Students Group; A Qualitative Study

Abstract

Tontus HO, Nebioglu S

Objective: Study aimed to clarify the effect of educational activities on same students in their pre-med students and medical students standing point about patient centred care.
Methods: The PPOS questionnaire used to examine patient-centredness and has been used in pre-med student and medical student samples. We surveyed students in their first month in undergraduate medical education following their enrolment in 2010. Three years later in 2013-2014 educational year same group included to same questionnaire, when they are 4th year students. Same 128 students filled questionnaire forms in two different years. The survey utilized the patients practitioners orientation scale (PPOS) to measure students’ changing attitudes.
Results: 59% of respondents were female and mean age was 18.52 in their 1st year. In total PPOS scores were 55.58 for Year 4 students and 62.41 for Year 1 students. We found that sharing and caring domains scores lowered when students finished their basic medical science education including empathy, communication and ethics lectures.
Conclusion: Despite encouraging patient-centred attitudes of undergraduate medical students by curricular models, our findings showed that in their further level, students became less patient centred. Depending on respondents’ score, curriculum organisers should re-check their curricular aim and educational program or activities. Feedback in medical education can be accepted as “specific information about the students’ perception and attitudes”. These findings give great information concerning effectiveness of program on specific areas with the clues to improve the program’ performance”.