Attitude of General Medical Doctorate Students Towards Professional Commitment

Arman Latifi; Seyyed Sadegh Hosseini; Sara Rahimi; Vahid Rahmani; Atefeh Esfandiari; Hedayat Salari

doi:10.18502/ijme.v16i16.15952

Arman Latifi Associate Professor, Department of public Health, Research Center for Evidence-Based Health Management, Maragheh University of Medical Sciences, Maragheh, Iran Maragheh University of Medical Sciences, Maragheh, Iran.
Seyyed Sadegh Hosseini Student Committee of Medical Education Development, Education Development Center, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran.
Sara Rahimi Assistant Professor, Medicinal Plants Research Center, Maragheh University of Medical Sciences, Maragheh, Iran.
Vahid Rahmani Lecturer, Department of Emeregencies and Operation Room, Maragheh University of Medical Sciences, Maragheh, Iran.
Atefeh Esfandiari Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy, School of Health and Nutrition, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran.
Hedayat Salari Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy, School of Health and Nutrition, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18502/ijme.v16i16.15952

Keywords: Attitude, Medical students, Professional ethics, Professional commitment.

Abstract

Professional commitment is described as a set of attitudes, values, behaviors, and relationships that serve as the foundation of a health professional's contract with society. The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the attitude of medical students of Bushehr University of Medical Sciences towards professional commitment in 2022. The research population of this descriptive study included 254 students of the last 3 years of the Faculty of Medicine of Bushehr University of Medical Sciences who were included in the study by census. The standard questionnaire of attitude towards the professional commitment of doctors was used for data gathering. Data were analyzed using SPSS software version 25. Descriptive tests, Spearman's correlation test, linear regression and Mann-Whitney test were used to analyze the data. The mean and standard deviation of the age of the students participating in the study was 24.69±2.25 years. The mean and standard deviation of the attitude score towards professional commitment were 67.12±12.72 out of 100. There was a statistically significant relationship between the variables of age, academic semester and experience of participating in training courses related to professional ethics with the mean attitude score (p < 0.05), but there was no relationship between gender and the attitude score towards professional commitment. There was no statistical significance (p > 0.05). Educational centers and its professors, as the most influential force on the formation of students' morals, should revise and implement the educational program well in the field of medical professionalism, considering professional needs.