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Personal Growth And Its Correlates During Residency Training, Todd Gress, Scott Wright, Rachel Levine, Brent Beasley, Paul Haidet, Suzanne Caccamese, Donald Brady, Ajay Marwaha, David Kern
Personal Growth And Its Correlates During Residency Training, Todd Gress, Scott Wright, Rachel Levine, Brent Beasley, Paul Haidet, Suzanne Caccamese, Donald Brady, Ajay Marwaha, David Kern
Todd W. Gress
- Objectives To explore the characteristics of and factors associated with personal growth during residency training.
- Methods In 2003, 359 house officers on 7 internal medicine residency training programmes in the USA were surveyed about their training experiences and issues related to their personal growth. Factor analysis and internal reliability testing were used to develop a ‘personal growth scale’. Logistic regression models were then used to identify independent associations between individual variables and ‘high’ versus ‘low’ personal growth scores.
- Results A total of 281 house officers (80%) responded. The personal growth scale had a Cronbach's alpha of 0.81. Factors that were …