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The doctor-patient relationship during medical internship: The evolution of dissatisfaction

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  • Sparr, Landy F.
  • Gordon, Geoffrey H.
  • Hickam, David H.
  • Girard, Donald E.

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We prospectively examined perceptions of the doctor-patient relationship among interns in two different internal medicine training programs five times during the internship year. All 59 interns in the University of California, Irvine-Long Beach and the Oregon Health Sciences University Medical Programs participated in the study during the 1982-1983 internship year. We serially administered a questionnaire that contained four major items: (1) a choice of one of six empirically developed role paradigms of the doctor-patient relationship; (2) a checklist of positive and negative aspects of internship; (3) a measure of level of satisfaction with the decision to become a physician; and (4) a rating list of mood descriptors. The six role paradigms portrayed a variety of positive and negative aspects of the doctor-patient relationship. At the beginning of the year, the interns were quite positive about the doctor-patient relationship and preferentially endorsed collegial models. As the year progressed, they endorsed significantly fewer positive and more negative models (P

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  • Sparr, Landy F. & Gordon, Geoffrey H. & Hickam, David H. & Girard, Donald E., 1988. "The doctor-patient relationship during medical internship: The evolution of dissatisfaction," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 26(11), pages 1095-1101, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:26:y:1988:i:11:p:1095-1101
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