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Predicting physician assistant students' professionalism by personality attributes.

Sharon Moser1, Amy Dereczyk

  • 1moserss@udmercy.edu

The Journal of Physician Assistant Education : the Official Journal of the Physician Assistant Education Association
|October 18, 2012
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Positive personality traits predict higher physician assistant (PA) student professionalism, while negative traits predict lower professionalism. This suggests personality assessment may aid in selecting candidates who value professionalism.

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Published on: September 11, 2021

Area of Science:

  • Medical Education
  • Psychology
  • Physician Assistant Studies

Background:

  • Professionalism is crucial for healthcare practitioners.
  • Understanding factors influencing professionalism in students is essential for effective training.
  • Physician assistant (PA) students require specific professional attributes for patient care.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the predictive relationship between personality characteristics and professionalism levels in physician assistant (PA) students.
  • To determine if positive and negative personality traits correlate with self-reported professionalism.

Main Methods:

  • Administered the Millon College Counseling Inventory (MCCI) and a PA professionalism scale to 82 PA students.
  • Utilized cluster analysis to group personality characteristics into 'healthy' and 'unhealthy' clusters.
  • Employed two-tailed Pearson correlations to compare personality clusters with 15 professionalism parameters.

Main Results:

  • 'Healthy' personality clusters (conscientiousness, outward directedness) positively predicted professionalism attributes like responsibility, punctuality, and seeking challenges.
  • 'Unhealthy' personality clusters negatively correlated with responsibility, trustworthiness, punctuality, and professionalism.

Conclusions:

  • Healthy personality traits are significant predictors of high self-reported professionalism in PA students.
  • Unhealthy personality traits predict lower levels of self-reported professionalism.
  • Incorporating personality assessments into admissions may enhance the selection of candidates with strong professional values.