Determinants and effects of medical students' core self-evaluation tendencies on clinical competence and workplace well-being in clerkship.

ABSTRACT: Core self-evaluation (CSE) is a personality trait that involves a person's evaluation of his or her own worth, competence, and capability. The objective of this study was to determine whether medical students' CSEs exert beneficial effects on their adaptation to their clerkship in terms of their clinical competence and workplace well-being and whether their preclinical academic performance can be a trait-relevant situation that enhances their CSE expression. In total, 127 medical students from 2 cohorts were included as participants in this study. We analyzed complete measures of personal background, objective and subjective preclinical academic performance (course evaluation grades and self-reported efficacy), CSE tendencies, and clinical competence (as objective structured clinical exami

SUBMITTER: Lin YK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5706685 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature