Attributes of a good practicing physician

Price, Philip B.; Lewis, Elizabeth; Loughmiller, Grover C.; Nelson, Dorothy; Murray, Simon; Taylor, C

doi:10.1097/00001888-197103000-00007

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“…One study (Price et al 1971) identified 87 desirable qualities for doctors to possess. Other studies have consulted participants involved in medical education and healthcare to create their list of desirable qualities.…”

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The desirable qualities of future doctors – A study of medical student perceptions

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Background: There is a lack of consensus regarding the qualities possessed by the ideal doctor, and very limited research regarding the views of medical students on these qualities. Aims: To investigate the views of commencing medical students regarding the desirable qualities of doctors. Methods: A survey containing a set of proposed desirable qualities of doctors identified from the existing literature was completed by 158 first-year medical students. Results: The survey had a 75% response rate. Students rated the individual qualities of empathy, motivation to be a doctor, good verbal communication, ethically sound, integrity and honesty as the most important. A factor analysis identified six categories of qualities: methodical processing, cognitive capacity, people skills, generic work ethic, role certainty and warmth. Significant differences in factor scores were found across subgroups of students (international and domestic students, with and without prior tertiary studies) on the following factors: methodical processing, which was scored highest by domestic students with prior tertiary studies, cognitive capacity, which was scored highest by domestic students without prior tertiary studies and generic work ethic, which was scored highest by international students. Conclusions: Medical students identified a range of desirable personal qualities of a doctor which varied according to student characteristics, including their prior educational experience. Future research aiming to define such desirable qualities should include a broader range of stakeholders, including students at different training levels and institutions.

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The desirable qualities of future doctors – A study of medical student perceptions

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“…Each interview lasts a minimum of 30 min, with up to 1 h allotted should the interviewer require the time. The College of Medicine employs a scoring rubric developed and validated by a previous Associate Dean for Admissions at the study institution, assessing how well the applicant fits the profile of the ''Ideal Physician'' developed by Price and co-authors (Price et al, 1971;Sade et al, 1985). In addition to assessing interpersonal skills, interviewers are asked to evaluate applicants in several broad categories, including principles (e.g.…”

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Medical School Application Interview Score Has Limited Predictive Validity for Performance on a Fourth Year Clinical Practice Examination

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“…In recent decades it has been generally recognised that, in addition to academic ability, doctors’ professional competence depends on a range of desirable personal qualities (for example [1]). These have been recently summarised [2] as teamwork and professional skills, duty and responsibility, professionalism and values, communication and interpersonal skills, and trustworthiness and ethical behaviour.…”

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Can personal qualities of medical students predict in-course examination success and professional behaviour? An exploratory prospective cohort study

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BackgroundOver two-thirds of UK medical schools are augmenting their selection procedures for medical students by using the United Kingdom Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT), which employs tests of cognitive and non-cognitive personal qualities, but clear evidence of the tests’ predictive validity is lacking. This study explores whether academic performance and professional behaviours that are important in a health professional context can be predicted by these measures, when taken before or very early in the medical course.MethodsThis prospective cohort study follows the progress of the entire student cohort who entered Hull York Medical School in September 2007, having taken the UKCAT cognitive tests in 2006 and the non-cognitive tests a year later. This paper reports on the students’ first and second academic years of study. The main outcome measures were regular, repeated tutor assessment of individual students’ interpersonal skills and professional behaviour, and annual examination performance in the three domains of recall and application of knowledge, evaluation of data, and communication and practical clinical skills. The relationships between non-cognitive test scores, cognitive test scores, tutor assessments and examination results were explored using the Pearson product–moment correlations for each group of data; the data for students obtaining the top and bottom 20% of the summative examination results were compared using Analysis of Variance.ResultsPersonal qualities measured by non-cognitive tests showed a number of statistically significant relationships with ratings of behaviour made by tutors, with performance in each year’s objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs), and with themed written summative examination marks in each year. Cognitive ability scores were also significantly related to each year’s examination results, but seldom to professional behaviours. The top 20% of examination achievers could be differentiated from the bottom 20% on both non-cognitive and cognitive measures.ConclusionsThis study shows numerous significant relationships between both cognitive and non-cognitive test scores, academic examination scores and indicators of professional behaviours in medical students. This suggests that measurement of non-cognitive personal qualities in applicants to medical school could make a useful contribution to selection and admission decisions. Further research is required in larger representative groups, and with more refined predictor measures and behavioural assessment methods, to establish beyond doubt the incremental validity of such measures over conventional cognitive assessments.

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Attributes of a good practicing physician

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The desirable qualities of future doctors – A study of medical student perceptions

The desirable qualities of future doctors – A study of medical student perceptions

Medical School Application Interview Score Has Limited Predictive Validity for Performance on a Fourth Year Clinical Practice Examination

Can personal qualities of medical students predict in-course examination success and professional behaviour? An exploratory prospective cohort study

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