"Every day that I stay at home, it's another day blaming myself for not being at #Frontline"-Understanding medical students' sacrifices during COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT: COVID-19 struck the world and stretched the healthcare system and professionals. Medical students engaged in the pandemic effort, making personal and professional sacrifices. However, the impact of these sacrifices on students` professional development is still unknown. We applied constructivist grounded theory to individual audio diaries (total time = 5h38 min) and interviews (total time = 11h57min) performed with 18 last-year medical students during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. The perspective of making sacrifices caused initial emotional distress in medical students, followed by a negotiation process revolving around three themes: predisposition to sacrifice, sense of competence, and sense of belonging. This negotiation process led to three response patterns: Pattern A

SUBMITTER: Lima Ribeiro D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9744057 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature