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MEDICAL STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES AND PERSPECTIVE ON UNPROFESSIONAL BEHAVIOR IN CLINICAL PRACTICE

Dr. Alaa Yousef Alsurayhi, Arwa Yousef Alsuraihi, Bandari khalid Aljabri

Medical professionalism can be defined as a vocation or ‘calling’, as it is a belief system in which group members (“professionals”) declare (“profess”) to each other and the public the shared competency standards and ethical values they swear to uphold in their work and what the public and individual patients can and should suppose from medical professionals. Professionalism in general is to do the desired work correctly and taking money for that. But in medical field and beside this definition, doctors should give more attention to many thing beside doing the work correctly to be the one who individual patients suppose from medical professionals. Most of participates think that they have a good vision about professionalism however they did not take or pass any of medical professionalism courses. At first we thought that is because of they have this knowledge from their study at college completely but this is vanished when we know that more than half of them thought they did not have sufficient training to complete their work successfully This study reveals that Clinical Medical Students practice different types of behaviors from their senior colleagues in clinical settings. The experiences of students are regularly dissimilar from what lectures in professionalism equipped them for. Students experience different kinds of unprofessional behaviors including disrespect, poor feedback and in-group and out-group issues; which often leave them sad, disappointed and demoralized. This research reemphasizes the need for problem- based experiential Professionalism modules throughout clinical Medical training, as well as ongoing training for mentors in both professionalism and how to bring productive and un-harmful feedback to their students.

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