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An exploratory study on the contribution of graduate entry students personality to the diversity of medical student populations

Studies conducted in medical education show that personality influences undergraduate medical students academic and clinical performances and also their career interests. Our aims with this exploratory study were: to assess the contribution of graduate entry students to the diversity of personality...

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Autores principales: Marvão, Pedro, Neto, Isabel, Castelo-Branco, Miguel, Ponte, José, Portela, Miguel, Costa, Patrício, Costa, Manuel João
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Publicado: Bohn Stafleu van Loghum 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4263796/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25410707
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40037-014-0150-z
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author Marvão, Pedro
Neto, Isabel
Castelo-Branco, Miguel
Ponte, José
Portela, Miguel
Costa, Patrício
Costa, Manuel João
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Neto, Isabel
Castelo-Branco, Miguel
Ponte, José
Portela, Miguel
Costa, Patrício
Costa, Manuel João
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description Studies conducted in medical education show that personality influences undergraduate medical students academic and clinical performances and also their career interests. Our aims with this exploratory study were: to assess the contribution of graduate entry students to the diversity of personality in medical student populations; to assess whether eventual differences may be explained by programme structure or student age and sex. We performed a cross-sectional study underpinned by the five-factor model of personality, with students attending three medical schools in Portugal. The five personality dimensions were assessed with the Portuguese version of the NEO-Five Factor Inventory. MANOVA and MANCOVA analyses were performed to clarify the contributions of school, programme structure, age and sex. Student personality dimensions were significantly different between the three medical schools [F ((10,1026)) = 3.159, p < .001, [Formula: see text]  = 0.03, π = 0.987]. However, taking sex and age into account the differences became non-significant. There were institutional differences in personality dimensions. However, those were primarily accounted for by sex and age effects and not by the medical school attended. Diversifying age and sex of the admitted students will diversify the personality of the medical student population.
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spelling pubmed-42637962014-12-15 An exploratory study on the contribution of graduate entry students personality to the diversity of medical student populations Marvão, Pedro Neto, Isabel Castelo-Branco, Miguel Ponte, José Portela, Miguel Costa, Patrício Costa, Manuel João Perspect Med Educ Original Article Studies conducted in medical education show that personality influences undergraduate medical students academic and clinical performances and also their career interests. Our aims with this exploratory study were: to assess the contribution of graduate entry students to the diversity of personality in medical student populations; to assess whether eventual differences may be explained by programme structure or student age and sex. We performed a cross-sectional study underpinned by the five-factor model of personality, with students attending three medical schools in Portugal. The five personality dimensions were assessed with the Portuguese version of the NEO-Five Factor Inventory. MANOVA and MANCOVA analyses were performed to clarify the contributions of school, programme structure, age and sex. Student personality dimensions were significantly different between the three medical schools [F ((10,1026)) = 3.159, p < .001, [Formula: see text]  = 0.03, π = 0.987]. However, taking sex and age into account the differences became non-significant. There were institutional differences in personality dimensions. However, those were primarily accounted for by sex and age effects and not by the medical school attended. Diversifying age and sex of the admitted students will diversify the personality of the medical student population. Bohn Stafleu van Loghum 2014-11-20 2014-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4263796/ /pubmed/25410707 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40037-014-0150-z Text en © The Author(s) 2014 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.
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Marvão, Pedro
Neto, Isabel
Castelo-Branco, Miguel
Ponte, José
Portela, Miguel
Costa, Patrício
Costa, Manuel João
An exploratory study on the contribution of graduate entry students personality to the diversity of medical student populations
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title_short An exploratory study on the contribution of graduate entry students personality to the diversity of medical student populations
title_sort exploratory study on the contribution of graduate entry students personality to the diversity of medical student populations
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4263796/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25410707
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40037-014-0150-z
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