1979
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-197910000-00007
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Modification of medical student perceptions of the cancer experience

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“…Prior to the elective the students expressed a degree of hopelessness for cancer patients. After the elective, it was shown that the students’ attitudes had become more positive (Cassileth & Egan, 1979).…”
Section: Electives: Standard Programmementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Prior to the elective the students expressed a degree of hopelessness for cancer patients. After the elective, it was shown that the students’ attitudes had become more positive (Cassileth & Egan, 1979).…”
Section: Electives: Standard Programmementioning
confidence: 99%
“…As in the case of behavioural style there is a skill involved, one which some might have by nature but which others have to acquire, and this comprises the ability to deal with another's problems without identifying with them. Perhaps the best time for doing this will be during training, and there are some courses designed to help students to come to terms with the problems of the cancer patient and with the difficulties that they themselves will experience in treating her (Cassileth and Egan, 1979;Poole and Sansori-Fisher, 1979). Once qualified, however, a surgeon is likely to get little support or guidance in this respect from his colleagues, since this is another problem which is not talked about.…”
Section: 'Case' Versus 'Personal' Orientationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Student attitudes were assessed by a 51-item instrument completed by the students immediately prior to and following the clerkship. Items in the questionnaire included 14 from the Cancer Attitude Survey (CAS) of Haley [6] and 15 previously used in testing medical students in other institutions [7]. Inclusion of these items permitted a comparison with the attitudes of other medical student and physician groups.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The USC student responses to the items from the CAS did not duplicate the factor structure of the original study group [6], a result noted by others [7]. As we were interested in specific differences, ie, pediatric versus adult comparisons, and pre-post comparisons rather than factor structure, changes in attitude were measured using paired t-tests for each statement, concordant with the approach of Blanchard et a1 [7]. Table I1 includes representative items from each subject area.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%