Fatemeh Fathian; Mohammad Reza Shakibi; Majid Fasihi Harandi; Habibeh Ahmadipour; Mina Mobasher
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Background: A person’s appearance and his/her adherence to the dress code standards are essential in the medical profession.Objectives: This study aimed to investigate patients’ and physicians’ viewpoints on interns’ professional outfits.Methods: This is a cross-sectional study, ...
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Background: A person’s appearance and his/her adherence to the dress code standards are essential in the medical profession.Objectives: This study aimed to investigate patients’ and physicians’ viewpoints on interns’ professional outfits.Methods: This is a cross-sectional study, with the participation of patients and physicians of general departments in a teaching hospital of Kerman University of Medical Sciences in 2018. The patients and physicians were selected through convenience and census method, respectively. To examine the participants’ perspectives on the professional dressing, six schematic images, three for males (1, 2, 3) and three for females (A, B, C) were designed. Data were collected through a structured interview in this way, the schematic images were displayed to the participants and they were asked to express their perspective using a series of questions. Data analyzed using SPSS version20.Results: Totally, 381 patients and 34 physicians participated. The majority of the participants preferred the professional outfit A for female interns and the professional outfit 1 for male interns in response to questions regarding the knowledge, responsibility, patient-care, hygiene, reliability of diagnosis and treatment of diseases, giving emergency consultations, the possibility for discussing sexual and psychiatric problems, as well as life problems. The physicians and patients had the same perspective except for the item about knowledge. (p <0.05).Conclusion: Our study shows that the outfits of physicians were considered by the participants in forming an effective relationship between the doctor and the patient, and the amount of patients' trust. Therefore, training interns for dressing professionally and complying with the necessary standards should be considered.
Seyed Sajjad Tabatabaei; Hossein Motahharinejad; Hedayat Tirgar
Volume 13, Issue 6 , March 2017, , Pages 553-567
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Background & Objective: Strengthening the teacher identity in physician tutors would result in training efficient physicians and help the students to gain skills and develop positive attitude towards favorable patient care The present study was conducted to evaluate the validity reliability and factor ...
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Background & Objective: Strengthening the teacher identity in physician tutors would result in training efficient physicians and help the students to gain skills and develop positive attitude towards favorable patient care The present study was conducted to evaluate the validity reliability and factor structure of the instrument to measure teacher identity in physicians Methods: In this descriptivecorrelation study with cluster sampling method 156 educator of ten medical schools were selected and responded to the electronic questionnaire Data was analyzed using partial least square (PLS) algorithm which included the measurement model (Cronbachs alpha loadings composite reliability convergent and discriminant validity) structural model (significant factor Tvalues and R Square the prediction model StoneGeisser quality indexes redundancy goodness of fit) to evaluate the nine components of the instrument Results: Fitting both the data algorithm and the results of confirmatory factor analysis indicated the desirability and acceptability of the mentioned structure in terms of components and index Conclusion: The results of this study suggest that the Persian version of the teacher identity assessment tool for physicians and university professors in the medical community has good reliability and construct validity and could be used to measure and identify the strengths and weaknesses of teacher identity in physicians and developing medical education