The Views of Senior Medical Students' About The Medical Skills Traning at The Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine

Abstract

BackgroundThe responsibility of the medical faculties is to educate graduates who are aware and sensitive to the health problems of the society and who can provide preventive and therapeutic health services. All graduates who are expected to improve the health level of society should be provided with fundamental medical values and medical skills. The aim of this study is to evaluate the views of interns of Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine on the level of achievement of fundamental medical skills stated in the National Medical Education Core Program (NMCP).MethodsIn the 2017-2018 academic year, 39.3% (n = 455) of senior medical students participated in the study. Their views on attitudes and habits related to medicine and their self-assessments about observing, performing and being able to do after graduation basic medical practices stated in the NMCP were evaluated with a survey consisting of 192 questions.ResultsAccording to the results of the survey, almost all of the students want to be a specialist and go to the commercial courses. Anxiety level about performing medical practices after graduation is quite high. When the total of the skills in the NMCP, is reviewed, it is seen that there is a loss of observing, performing and being able to do after graduation between 20-25%.ConclusionsThe study showed that some of the senior medical students who were a few months away from graduation were not sufficient for primary health care services according to the fundamental medical skills defined in the NMCP. It is necessary to investigate which skills are inadequate and the reasons for the inadequacy. It is also important to make the students' positive judgments about themselves and to give them motivation and self-confidence about their professional life.