Avaliação de atitudes de internos de medicina frente a aspectos relevantes da prática médica

Abstract

Introduction: In traditional medicine curriculum, sixth-year medical students is the moment in which students experience medical practice more intensively. Attitudes can be considered predictors of behaviors and actions. Evaluate them contributes to improve medical graduation. Objective: Evaluate medical internship attitudes considering medical practice and associated factors in a brazilian public university. Methods: cross-sectional study with 69 students, using a structured questionnaire and an attitude scale (Colares, 2002). Descriptive statistic was carried out, classification of the attitude tendency, group analysis (‘clusters’) and F statistic. Results: the average age was 25.1+1,9 and 56.5% were male. Students presented positive attitudes to emotional aspects in organic diseases, primary health care, the medical contribution to the scientific advancement of medicine and other aspects of medical activity and health politics, conflicting attitudes concerning mental illness and negative concerning death. Conclusion: Results show the need of interventions in order to reduce the identified conflicting and negative attitudes.