Personality traits of pharmacy and medical students throughout their course of studies

Cordina, Maria; Lauri, Mary Anne; Buttigieg, Raphael; Lauri, Josef

doi:10.18549/pharmpract.2015.04.640

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“…This compares with other healthcare professions, such as physiotherapy, where medicines form an adjunct to their main practice area, enhancing role expansion. Pharmacy could also be perceived to be an innately cautious profession [88], and the policy documents could thus serve to overcome a reluctance to adopt innovative working practices.…”

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Non-medical prescribing in the United Kingdom National Health Service: A systematic policy review

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Introduction Non-medical prescribing was introduced into the United Kingdom (UK) to improve patient care, through extending healthcare professionals’ roles. More recent government health service policy focuses on the increased demand and the need for efficiency. This systematic policy review aimed to describe any changes in government policy position and the role that non-medical prescribing plays in healthcare provision. Method The systematic policy review included policy and consultation documents that describe independent non-medical prescribing. A pre-defined protocol was registered with PROSPERO (CRD42015019786). Professional body websites, other relevant websites and the following databases were searched to identify relevant documents: HMIC, Lexis Nexis, UK Government Web Archive, UKOP, UK Parliamentary Papers and Web of Science. Documents published between 2006 and February 2018 were included. Results and discussion Following exclusions, 45 documents were selected for review; 23 relating to policy or strategy and 22 to consultations. Of the former, 13/23 were published 2006–2010 and the remainder since 2013. Two main themes were identified: chronological aspects and healthcare provision. In the former, a publication gap for policy documents resulted from a change in government and associated major healthcare service reorganisation. In the later, the role of non-medical prescribing was found to have evolved to support efficient service delivery, and cost reduction. For many professions, prescribing appears embedded into practice; however, the pharmacy profession continues to produce policy documents, suggesting that prescribing is not yet perceived as normal practice. Conclusion Prescribing appears to be more easily adopted into practice where it can form part of the overall care of the patient. Where new roles are required to be established, then prescribing takes longer to be universally adopted. While this review concerns policy and practice in the UK, the aspect of role adoption has wider potential implications.

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Non-medical prescribing in the United Kingdom National Health Service: A systematic policy review

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“…14 Personality traits of pharmacy and medical students differ which may also lead to frustration and conflict and possibly affect patient care. 15 Further data demonstrates that personality traits and cultural factors also influence the adoption of advanced pharmacy services. 16,17 These studies suggest that pharmacists do not have the personality of those with the command talent.…”

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“…These findings make an explicit assumption that physicians are the deciders on the health care team and pharmacists play a supporting role in team-based care. [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] Keeping these roles and talents in mind, the pharmacy profession needs to train students how to build and be part of effective teams. Literature suggests that pharmacists' perceptions of their professional role does not always include describing themselves as being in patient-centered roles.…”

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Academic Pharmacy: Where is Our Influence?

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Hanes

et al. 2017

American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education

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Objective. To evaluate the talents of fellows from cohorts 1-10 of the Academic Leadership Fellows Program (ALFP). Methods. This was a descriptive analysis of previously collected ALFP cohort data reflecting the talents using the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment tool. Data consisted of 295 fellows from the first 10 years of the ALFP program. The Clifton StrengthsFinder talents were aggregated and analyzed to determine talents (strengths) distribution and domain. The aggregate of the four domains were compared among ALFP fellows using a chi-square analysis with an a priori alpha of .05. Results. Lowest frequency of talents was found in the influencing domain (11.2%), while the domains with the largest frequency of talents were strategic thinking (34.4%) and executing (31.1%). When looking at the specific talents within the domains among the ALFP fellows, achiever (in the executing domain) and learner (in the strategic thinking domain) were the most frequent talents, while command (in the influencing domain) and adaptability (in the relationship building domain) were the least frequent talents. Conclusions. Since the profession is deficient in the influencing and relationship building domains (command and adaptability talents, respectively), this could help explain our slow progress in moving the profession from a product-focused role to a provider-based role. Perhaps the profession should be using a strategy better aligned with our signature leadership domains of executing and strategic thinking and focus on being a member of the health care team by aligning with team-based care rather than obtaining provider status.

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“…15 A longitudinal study done on pharmacy and medical students of Malta also reported the shifting of certain personality traits from their baseline at the time of their enrollment. 16…”

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Assessment of Personality Traits and Their Changes Over the Undergraduate Medical Course: A Pseudo-longitudinal Analysis among Indian Medical Students

Bandyopadhyay

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Das³

et al. 2022

Int J Med Stud

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Background: Personality of medical students have been shown to affect both their academic performance as well as their capabilities to develop rapport with patients, with evidence that they change through the medical course. This research aimed to explore the personality traits of undergraduate medical students and assess whether personality parameters changed throughout the medical education course. Methods: A pseudo-longitudinal design was utilized for this study. A total of 346 MBBS students studying in a Medical College of Eastern India were recruited at different stages of their coursework. These participants were similar in their sociodemographic makeup and differed only with respect to their year of MBBS study. The personality characteristics were assessed among these participants using the short-form revised Eysenck personality inventory. Results: The minimum possible score for each subscale was 0, and the maximum was 12. Mean scores of the participants for the extraversion, neuroticism, psychoticism, and lie scales were 6.17±3.09, 7.51±3.16, 3.40±1.61, and 4.98±2.48, respectively. Females scored significantly higher in neuroticism and lie dimensions. There were significant differences of psychoticism scores between rural and urban background participants. Significant negative trend was seen from the first to the final year of study in the extraversion dimension (Kendall’s tau =-0.094, p-value=0.025). Conclusion: Medical students in India scored high on the neuroticism and low on the psychoticism scales of personality with a trend of increasing extraversion over the years of their coursework.

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Personality traits of pharmacy and medical students throughout their course of studies

Cited by 10 publications

References 23 publications

Non-medical prescribing in the United Kingdom National Health Service: A systematic policy review

Non-medical prescribing in the United Kingdom National Health Service: A systematic policy review

Academic Pharmacy: Where is Our Influence?

Assessment of Personality Traits and Their Changes Over the Undergraduate Medical Course: A Pseudo-longitudinal Analysis among Indian Medical Students

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