%0 Journal Article
%T ACTITUDES DE LOS ESTUDIANTES COLOMBIANOS DE MEDICINA HACIA LA PR¨¢CTICA DE LA DISECCI¨®N EN ANATOM¨ªA Y SU RELACI¨®N CON EL PUNTAJE EN LA ESCALA DE EMPAT¨ªA M¨¦DICA DE JEFFERSON
%A Jagua Gualdr¨®n
%A Andr¨¦s
%A Urrego Mendoza
%A Diana Zulima
%J Revista Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia
%D 2011
%I Universidad Nacional de Colombia
%X background. anatomical dissection of human corpses is a fundamental tool when teaching anatomy, thereby leading to gaining theoretical and emotional knowledge and raising awareness regarding behaviour which could be important in building up the doctor-patient relationship. objective. characterising undergraduate medical students' attitudes towards dissection and their relationship with a score on the jefferson scale of physician empathy (jspe). materials and methods. this was a cross-sectional study which used information collected from 5 medicine faculties in bogot¨¢ (colombia) during the second semester, 2010. the instrument included socio-demographic variables regarding attitudes towards dissection and the jspe. prevalence ratios and the pertinent 95% confidence intervals were calculated. results. 904 students were surveyed; their average age in years was 19.4 +/- 2.8 (51.8% were female and 48.2% male). dissection evoked positive emotions which were related to a greater interest in learning. average jspe score was 113.34. females obtained a significantly higher score (p=0.012). none of the prevalence ratios were significant. conclusion. students' attitudes towards dissection were positive in this study and were not related to a score on the jspe.
%K dissection
%K medical education
%K undergraduate
%K attitude
%K empathy
%K mesh.
%U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0120-00112011000400002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en