Being a physician: what messages have medical students received during the first month of medical school experience?
BMC Medical Education, cilt.24, sa.1, 2024 (SCI-Expanded)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 24 Sayı: 1
- Basım Tarihi: 2024
- Doi Numarası: 10.1186/s12909-024-06132-4
- Dergi Adı: BMC Medical Education
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Biotechnology Research Abstracts, EMBASE, MEDLINE, Veterinary Science Database, Directory of Open Access Journals
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Becoming a physician, Faculty of medicine, Medical profession, Medical student, Phenomenology
- Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
- Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Background: This study aims to investigate the meanings that first-year medical students make about becoming a physician from the messages they receive from the faculty environment, faculty members and senior students after their one-month experience at the faculty of medicine. Methods: In this phenomenological qualitative research, in-depth semi-structured interview was used to collect data from 21 first-year medical students, and data were analyzed through inductive content analysis method. Results: As a result of the analysis, one theme and four categories emerged about gaining professional competencies, having emotions specific to the profession, having sources of motivation, and challenges of becoming a physician in the future. The results reveal that first-year medical students think being a physician will help them gain professional competences, motivate them as the job is prestigious, a guaranteed profession, provides a multidisciplinary working environment, and gives opportunity to serve society and keep people alive. On the other hand, the first-year medical students are aware of the fact that their future profession will bring some challenges such as having to deal with a lot of stress, long working hours, mobbing, and having to study hard all the time during their education. Conclusions: We believe that the current study presents significant results and some useful knowledge regarding the first-year medical students’ perception of their future career as a physician.