The attitudes of medical students in Europe toward the clinical importance of embryology

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ca.22667" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ca.22667</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ca.22667" target="_blank" >10.1002/ca.22667</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The attitudes of medical students in Europe toward the clinical importance of embryology

Original language description

Although there have been many studies reporting the attitudes of medical students to the clinical importance of gross anatomy, little is known about their opinions concerning the clinical importance of embryology. Using Thurstone and Chave methods to assess attitudes, nearly 1,600 medical students across Europe in the early stages of their training provided responses to a survey that tested the hypothesis that they do not regard embryology as highly clinically relevant. Indeed, we further proposed that student attitudes to gross anatomy are much more positive than those toward embryology. Our findings show that our hypotheses hold, regardless of the university and country surveyed and regardless of the teaching methods employed for embryology. Clearly, embryology has a significant part to play in medical education in terms of understanding prenatal life, of appreciating how the organization of the mature human body has developed, and of providing essential information for general medical practice, obstetrics and pediatrics, and teratology. However, while newly recruited medical students understand the importance of gross anatomy in the development of professional competence, understanding the importance of embryology requires teachers, medical educationalists, and devisors of medical curricula to pay special attention to informing students of the significant role played by embryology in attaining clinical competence and achieving the knowledge and understanding of the biomedical sciences that underpins becoming a learned member of a health care profession.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EA - Morphology and cytology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Clinical Anatomy

ISSN

0897-3806

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

29

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

144-150

UT code for WoS article

000370613000008

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84960246340