Woolf, K;
Cave, J;
McManus, IC;
Dacre, JE;
(2007)
'It gives you an understanding you can't get from any book.' The relationship between medical students' and doctors' personal illness experiences and their performance: a qualitative and quantitative study.
BMC Medical Education
, 7
, Article 50. 10.1186/1472-6920-7-50.
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Abstract
Anecdotes abound about doctors' personal illness experiences and the effect they have on their empathy and care of patients. We formally investigated the relationship between doctors' and medical students' personal illness experiences, their examination results, preparedness for clinical practice, learning and professional attitudes and behaviour towards patients.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | 'It gives you an understanding you can't get from any book.' The relationship between medical students' and doctors' personal illness experiences and their performance: a qualitative and quantitative study. |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1472-6920-7-50 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-7-50 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2007 Woolf et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Attitude of Health Personnel, Attitude to Health, Critical Illness, Educational Measurement, Empathy, Evaluation Studies as Topic, Female, Humans, Life Change Events, London, Male, Physician-Patient Relations, Physicians, Qualitative Research, Questionnaires, Students, Medical |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > UCL Medical School |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/144278 |
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