Tolerance for Uncertainty, Personality Traits and Specialty Choice Among Medical Students

Borracci, Raúl A.; Ciambrone, Graciana; Arribalzaga, Eduardo B.

doi:10.1016/j.jsurg.2021.03.018

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“…Uncertainty tolerance may also be related to future medical speciality choice (Borracci et al, 2021), further supporting a potentially important role of uncertainty tolerance in healthcare education and preparation of the future healthcare workforce.…”

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“…Furthermore, many uncertainty tolerance studies link low uncertainty tolerance to burnout and emotional distress (Lally & Cantillon, 2014 ; Kimo Takayesu et al, 2014 ; Hancock & Mattick, 2020 ), and higher uncertainty tolerance to well‐being (Kuhn et al, 2009 ; Cooke et al, 2013 ). Uncertainty tolerance may also be related to future medical speciality choice (Borracci et al, 2021 ), further supporting a potentially important role of uncertainty tolerance in healthcare education and preparation of the future healthcare workforce.…”

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Fostering uncertainty tolerance in anatomy education: Lessons learned from how humanities, arts and social science (HASS) educators develop learners' uncertainty tolerance

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Ziebell

et al. 2022

Anatomical Sciences Ed

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Fostering uncertainty tolerance in anatomy education: Lessons learned from how humanities, arts and social science (HASS) educators develop learners' uncertainty tolerance

Lazarus

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Ziebell

et al. 2022

Anatomical Sciences Ed

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“…Intolerance of uncertainty is also associated with more psychological distress and burnout, 8,39 loss of self‐compassion, 40 career dissatisfaction and disengagement at work, more discomfort dealing with death and grief, 41 more concerns about malpractice risk, less propensity to adopt new and effective clinical interventions, 32 and more limited leadership abilities 42 . Clinicians with higher intolerance of uncertainty may also avoid certain career paths, such as primary care, emergency medicine, psychiatry or geriatric medicine, as these are perceived as disciplines likely to evoke more decisional uncertainty 14,32,43 …”

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Coping with uncertainty in clinical practice: a narrative review

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Doust

Keijzers

et al. 2023

Medical Journal of Australia

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Summary Clinicians must make decisions amid the uncertainty that is ubiquitous to clinical practice. Uncertainty in clinical practice can assume many forms depending on its source, such as insufficient personal knowledge or scientific evidence, limited practical understanding or competence, challenging interpersonal relationships, and complexity and ambiguity in clinical encounters. The level and experience of uncertainty varies according to personal traits, clinical context, affective factors and sociocultural norms. Clinicians vary in their tolerance of uncertainty, and maladaptive responses may adversely affect patient care and clinician wellbeing. Various strategies can be used to minimise and manage, but not eliminate, uncertainty and to share uncertainty with patients without compromising the clinician–patient relationship or clinician credibility.

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“…For example, a recent exploration found that medical students in Jordan who displayed high extraversion, conscientiousness, and emotional stability preferred to choose a practical clinical specialty [16]. The association between personality traits, tolerance to uncertainty, and the specialty option was also explored on a sample of medical undergraduates from Buenos Aires, Argentina, suggesting that the students' tolerance to ambiguity was higher among sixth year undergraduates than among freshmen [17].…”

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Medical Students’ Personalities: A Critical Factor for Doctor-Patient Communication

Suciu

Mărginean

Meliţ

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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The aim of this study was to assess the level of creativity and personality traits and their mutual influence on medical students using the DECAS and BWAS. We performed a prospective descriptive study on 119 medical students from Târgu Mureș, Romania between November 2020 and July 2021, who answered questions relating to the BWAS and DECAS scales to evaluate their creativity and personality traits. Our findings pointed out a reverse correlation between age and both the original and revised BWAS (r = −0.2037, p = 0.0263; r = −0.1931, p = 0.0354). In terms of extraversion, we found a significant positive correlation for both openness (r = 0.3032, p = 0.0008) and emotional stability (r = 0.2868, p = 0.0016) and a negative correlation between extraversion and agreeability (r = −0.2394, p = 0.0087). Regarding creativity, we found positive correlations between emotional stability and both the original and revised BWAS (r = 0.20, p = 0.0279; r = 0.20, p = 0.0245). Medical students’ creativity might be positively influenced by emotional stability and seems to decrease with age. Higher extraversion scores could be related to increased openness and emotional stability as well as decreased agreeability.

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Tolerance for Uncertainty, Personality Traits and Specialty Choice Among Medical Students

Cited by 18 publications

References 40 publications

Fostering uncertainty tolerance in anatomy education: Lessons learned from how humanities, arts and social science (HASS) educators develop learners' uncertainty tolerance

Fostering uncertainty tolerance in anatomy education: Lessons learned from how humanities, arts and social science (HASS) educators develop learners' uncertainty tolerance

Coping with uncertainty in clinical practice: a narrative review

Medical Students’ Personalities: A Critical Factor for Doctor-Patient Communication

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