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Attitudes Toward Osteopathic Medicine Scale: Development And Psychometrics, Mohammadreza Hojat Professor, Jennifer Desantis, Robert A Cain, Mark R Speicher, Lynn Bragan, Leonard H Calabrese
Attitudes Toward Osteopathic Medicine Scale: Development And Psychometrics, Mohammadreza Hojat Professor, Jennifer Desantis, Robert A Cain, Mark R Speicher, Lynn Bragan, Leonard H Calabrese
Department of Medicine Faculty Papers
Objective: To develop a valid and reliable instrument for measuring attitudes toward osteopathic medicine.
Methods: Participants included 5,669 first-year students from 33 U.S. colleges of osteopathic medicine, who completed an online survey at the beginning of the 2019-2020 academic year. Using data from the nationwide Project in Osteopathic Medical Education and Empathy, we developed a 13-item instrument: Attitudes Toward Osteopathic Medicine Scale (ATOMS) and demonstrated the validity and reliability of its scores. The social desirability response bias was controlled in statistical analyses.
Results: The corrected item-total score correlations were all positive and statistically significant, and the effect sizes of item …
Highlighting A Curricular Need: Uncertainty, Covid-19, And Health Systems Science., Dimitrios Papanagnou, Rebecca Jaffe, Deborah Ziring
Highlighting A Curricular Need: Uncertainty, Covid-19, And Health Systems Science., Dimitrios Papanagnou, Rebecca Jaffe, Deborah Ziring
Department of Medicine Faculty Papers
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Gender Disparity In Evaluation Of Internal Medicine Clerkship Performance., Deborah J. Gorth, Rogan G. Magee, Sarah E. Rosenberg, Nina Mingioni
Gender Disparity In Evaluation Of Internal Medicine Clerkship Performance., Deborah J. Gorth, Rogan G. Magee, Sarah E. Rosenberg, Nina Mingioni
Department of Medicine Faculty Papers
Importance: Women studying medicine currently equal men in number, but evidence suggests that men and women might not be evaluated equally throughout their education.
Objective: To examine whether there are differences associated with gender in either objective or subjective evaluations of medical students in an internal medicine clerkship.
Design, Setting, and Participants: This single-center retrospective cohort study evaluated data from 277 third-year medical students completing internal medicine clerkships in the 2017 to 2018 academic year at an academic hospital and its affiliates in Pennsylvania. Data were analyzed from September to November 2020.
Exposure: Gender, presumed based on pronouns used in …