Background: Deviant and health risk behaviors among young-adults are associated with many adverse outcomes. Objectives: This study aims to evaluate a broad variety of behaviors by gender differences and their contribution to predicting cannabis use in undergraduate students. Method: This research is based on a structured, self-reported anonymous questionnaire distributed to 1,432 young adult undergraduate students at an Israeli University, 533 males and 899 females (mean age 27.4; SD 6.01).
Results: The findings demonstrate a significant proportion of sampled young adults reported to be involved in deviant and health risk behaviors and that all risky behaviors were more frequently significant in males than in females. Among drivers 72% reported speeding, 60% reported failure to keep distance, 44% reported being involved at a car accident as a driver, 40% reported not stopping at a stop sign, and quarter reported driving after drinking alcohol. These findings also expand how certain risk behaviors contribute to predicting cannabis use. Conclusions: The relatively high prevalence of some of these risky behaviors among normative young adults suggests that risky behaviors are considered as normative behavior for this group, especially among man, and therefore, policymakers need to consider prevention and harm reduction interventions relevant to this risk group. 相似文献
A pilot interviewing course was offered as an elective to first-year medical students in the spring of 1985. A quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test control group demonstrated that students who took the course exhibited a significant increase in interviewing skills. Subjects, 15 in the experimental group and 11 in the control group, were assessed in each of the following 3 years. Data consisted of five 10-minute videotaped interviews with real or stimulated patients for each subject and subject's responses on a degree of confidence, familiarity and anxiety scale. Interviews were rated on 43 behaviours by two independent coders with a 90% simple agreement. The experimental group did not maintain their scores on interviewing skills and both groups showed a significant decline in nine skills comprising empathy. The only significant difference between the groups in fourth year was on the degree of confidence experienced. While interviewing skills can be learned they decline in the clinical years as students learn medical problem-solving. If medical students are to graduate with their original empathy intact, a follow-up course in fourth year is indicated. 相似文献
Summary. The University Centre for Health Sciences (UCHS) or as it is referred to in French ‘Centre Universitaire des Sciences de la Santé’ (CUSS), became functional in 1969 with the enrolment of the first group of students. The objective of this training programme was to produce a scientifically sound, multipurpose doctor who would be fully operational in a rural setting with minimal equipment and supplies ( Monekosso 1970, 1972 ). The graduate had to be able to adapt readily to new situations and improvise whenever possible, calling for a high degree of competence and initiative. The training strategies adopted by UCHS in 1969 which met this requirement were later found to be in close concordance with the tenets of the World Conference on Medical Education held in Edinburgh in 1988, the Edinburgh Declaration. While some of the terminology may not have been worked out at the time, the programme developed embraced some new concepts hitherto untried or undeveloped:
— the problem-solving approach in the first to the sixth year;
— an integrated teaching approach during the first to sixth year of medical training;
— an integrated medicine internship in district hospitals in the sixth year;
— a community-based training approach throughout the training;
— team training of three different health professionals;
— competency-based training;
— health services linked research;
— health services linked training ( Monekosso & Quenum 1978 ).
The concordance of this programme to the Edinburgh Declaration is of great interest in realizing the World Federation for Medical Education programme and implementing the Edinburgh Declaration. The involvement of the three innovative medical schools in the planning stage of the curriculum explains this concordance. 相似文献
The Ohio State University College of Medicine has offered an independent study curricular option since 1970. This study reports our experience covering 10 entering classes and compares the independent study programme (ISP) students to the students who entered the traditional lecture-discussion programme (LDP). It looks at (a) entering demographic and personality characteristics, (b) academic, clinical and research performance during school and at graduation and (c) practice and career outcomes. The major findings are that, as groups, students from the two curricular programmes are far more alike than different but that the flexibility of an independent study programme provides special options without loss of academic achievement. Individual talents and interests were enhanced and research opportunities have aided recruitment and development of particular students. Independent study students pursued more research during medical school and hold more full-time academic positions in practice. A comparative cost study showed that, once the two programmes are operational, per student operational costs are equivalent. Results of this study indicate, that at Ohio State, the benefits of a two-track system outweigh the additional costs. 相似文献