THE ATTITUDE OF MEDICAL STUDENTS TO THE TRAINING PROGRAM OF A DOCTOR
AbstractThe article presents the results of a sociological study of medical students’ attitudes towards the curriculum of medical training. The study was conducted among the students of Volga Medical Research University (PMRU) using an online survey.
The aim of the study was to identify the attitudes of different typological groups of medical students toward the physician training program.
The study showed that the attitude of medical students to the curriculum is diverse and depends on a number of factors: first, the course of study, faculty and gender; second, the nature and content of future professional activity in various branches of medicine; third, the tasks, conditions and opportunities of training specialists in a medical university.
In the medical students’ training program, there were disciplines about which the survey participants were not only in favor of reducing the number of hours in these subjects, but even often proposed to exclude them from the doctor’s training program. Such disciplines include mathematics, physics, as well as philosophy and history. For subjects that carry the connotation of medical specificity, the attitude is somewhat milder, although even here the desire to be free of these subjects sometimes prevails over the desire to study them, as is the case with medical informatics, biophysics, and medical statistics. Based on the aggregate of different sets of subjects that different groups of students think should be retained or excluded from the physician training program, we obtained 4 types of approaches – clinical, hygienic, general scientific, and natural science. Each of these types contains a different set of preferred and rejected subjects.
Keywords:medical students; curriculum; doctor; education; training of personnel
Funding. The study had no sponsor support.
Conflict of interest. The authors declare no conflict of interest.
For citation: Zolin I.E., Iudin A.A., Iudin D.I., Iudin A.T. The attitude of medical students to the training program of a doctor. Meditsinskoe obrazovanie i professional’noe razvitie [Medical education and professional development]. 2023; 11 (1): 102–124. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33029/2220-8453-2023-14-1-102-124 (in Russian)