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Medical Students' Voluntary Service During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland
From the very first moment coronavirus struck, medical students volunteered to support healthcare professionals' fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. To learn more about future healthcare professionals' volunteering during such an outbreak, we conducted a survey among 417 students of Pozna...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8078410/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33928061 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.618608 |
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author | Domaradzki, Jan Walkowiak, Dariusz |
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description | From the very first moment coronavirus struck, medical students volunteered to support healthcare professionals' fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. To learn more about future healthcare professionals' volunteering during such an outbreak, we conducted a survey among 417 students of Poznan University of Medical Sciences. Our findings suggest that although numerous studies demonstrate that traditional, value-based volunteering is decreasing, and especially higher education students are more oriented toward their own career, in the times of the current health crisis, young peoples' involvement in volunteering has been mainly driven by altruism and the ethical imperative to serve their community, their fellow healthcare professionals and their patients. Thus, while the prime role of the volunteering was to relieve the healthcare system, it also reinforced such important medical values as altruism, public service and professional solidarity. Moreover, it proved that whilst risk is inherent to medicine, the students' volunteering is truly a moral enterprise. |
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spelling | pubmed-80784102021-04-28 Medical Students' Voluntary Service During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland Domaradzki, Jan Walkowiak, Dariusz Front Public Health Public Health From the very first moment coronavirus struck, medical students volunteered to support healthcare professionals' fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. To learn more about future healthcare professionals' volunteering during such an outbreak, we conducted a survey among 417 students of Poznan University of Medical Sciences. Our findings suggest that although numerous studies demonstrate that traditional, value-based volunteering is decreasing, and especially higher education students are more oriented toward their own career, in the times of the current health crisis, young peoples' involvement in volunteering has been mainly driven by altruism and the ethical imperative to serve their community, their fellow healthcare professionals and their patients. Thus, while the prime role of the volunteering was to relieve the healthcare system, it also reinforced such important medical values as altruism, public service and professional solidarity. Moreover, it proved that whilst risk is inherent to medicine, the students' volunteering is truly a moral enterprise. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-04-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8078410/ /pubmed/33928061 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.618608 Text en Copyright © 2021 Domaradzki and Walkowiak. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Domaradzki, Jan Walkowiak, Dariusz Medical Students' Voluntary Service During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland |
title | Medical Students' Voluntary Service During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland |
title_full | Medical Students' Voluntary Service During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland |
title_fullStr | Medical Students' Voluntary Service During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland |
title_full_unstemmed | Medical Students' Voluntary Service During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland |
title_short | Medical Students' Voluntary Service During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland |
title_sort | medical students' voluntary service during the covid-19 pandemic in poland |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8078410/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33928061 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.618608 |
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