cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14268440.v1
title: Mapping of medical schools: the distribution of undergraduate courses and annual vacancies in Brazilian cities in 2020

description: Abstract: Introduction: The number of medical schools in Brazil, as well as the number of vacancies offered at these schools, has grown considerably in the last few years. Since 2013, this increasehas aimedat reaching especially the rural and underserved areas of the country. Objective: Considering that there are many different interests concerning this debate and that this reality directly influences the education and health policies of the country, the aim of this study was to evaluate the number and the distribution of the medical courses,as well as vacancies in these schools in 2020, presenting an updated overview of the Brazilian medical schools. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study, based on data gathered from the Brazilian Ministry ofEducation and Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) website. The utilized variables were the number of courses, number of vacancies offered in each course, characteristics of the cities where the medical schools are located, such as population size, Human Development Index (HDI) and distance to the capital city of each state. Results: Among the institutions that have already initiated their activities, there are 328 active courses, offering 35.480 vacancies for Medical School applicants. There is a difference when analyzing public or private institutions and paid or tuition-free institutions. There is a greater offer of paid courses (74,1%) and of courses located in the countryside (69,8%). Among the courses in the countryside, 27,8% of the vacancies are offered within 100 km of the capital city. Only 7,9% of the annual vacancies are offered in cities with a medium HDI, and the remainder are offered in cities with high or very high HDI. The increase in HDI is related to the higher proportion of private courses offering medical vacancies. It was observed that there is no correspondence between the absolute number of vacancies and the population of the North region, differentfrom what occurs in the other regions of the country. Conclusions: Medical training is under many influences, such as economic and political trends. This discussion needs to consider the regionalization and democratization of access. It was observed that public institutions tend to be located in municipalities that are farther away from the capitals. Even though there is now greater homogeneity between the regions, the Southeast still concentrates almost half of the vacancies in medical courses. Also, the increase in the number of vacancies in private courses brings up the reflection about the socioeconomic profile of medical students who have the opportunity to gain access to this level of education.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14279533.v1
title: Reality or simulation? Performance analysis of medical students through different practical assessments

description: Abstract: Introduction: Assessing clinical skills represents a challenge in medical training. The heterogeneity in the selection of patients associated to a lack of objective criteria has resulted in a methodological shift toward using the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE). Objective: This study aimed to identify whether the OSCE results in a Gaussian frequency distribution of performance assessment marks compared to the traditional model. Method: 239 students from the Semiotics module of the medicine course between 2016 (traditional model) and 2017 (OSCE) were analyzed using the two-dimensional Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and Student’s t-test for correlation with the performance coefficient (PC). Results: The test scores in the traditional model (p&lt;0.0001; KS = 0.1881) are more discrepant in relation to the normal distribution than the OSCE test scores (p=0.0010; KS=0.1134) and show more correlation with the PC (p &lt;0.0001; r = 0.45) than the OSCE model (p = 0.31; r=0.06). Conclusion: OSCE might provide a more accurate assessment of a student’s performance during medical internship.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14279536
title: Profile and professional career of graduates from a residency program of the basic medical areas: a cross section study

description: Abstract: Introduction: medical residency is known as the “gold standard” for the qualification of specialists. Research into the profile of medical residency program graduates is important to identify potentialities and fragilities of the specialization. Objective: The objective of this study was to understand the profile and professional satisfaction of the graduates from the residency programs of basic medical areas of a teaching hospital in the northeast of Brazil. Methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted through an online questionnaire that was sent to the participants via electronic mail. The study population consisted of residency program graduates of the basic medical areas who graduated between 2013 and 2017. The Informed Consent Form was sent together with the form. Descriptive analyses were performed and data were presented as relative and absolute frequencies. The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the IMIP. Results: of the 194 graduates, 79 (40.72%) answered the questionnaire. 73.4% were female and 60.8% were married. Approximately 55.7% of the graduates earned salaries corresponding to 11 and 22 minimum monthly wages. 54 graduates (68.4%) had attended a private medical school. Regarding stricto sensu postgraduate studies, 19 (21.7%) had a master´s degree. 93.7% are practicing their medical specialization and 54 (68.4%) still live in Pernambuco. Regarding public service, 64.6% are linked to the Unified Health System of Pernambuco state. 43% of the graduates worked between 40 and 60 h per week. About 75% of the graduates stated that they would attend the program again at the hospital and declared that completing the residency at the institution facilitated their professional life. Conclusion: the periodic monitoring of graduates from a residency program is a useful tool for evaluating the program and allows for surveillance of implemented interventions
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14279536.v1
title: Profile and professional career of graduates from a residency program of the basic medical areas: a cross section study

description: Abstract: Introduction: medical residency is known as the “gold standard” for the qualification of specialists. Research into the profile of medical residency program graduates is important to identify potentialities and fragilities of the specialization. Objective: The objective of this study was to understand the profile and professional satisfaction of the graduates from the residency programs of basic medical areas of a teaching hospital in the northeast of Brazil. Methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted through an online questionnaire that was sent to the participants via electronic mail. The study population consisted of residency program graduates of the basic medical areas who graduated between 2013 and 2017. The Informed Consent Form was sent together with the form. Descriptive analyses were performed and data were presented as relative and absolute frequencies. The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the IMIP. Results: of the 194 graduates, 79 (40.72%) answered the questionnaire. 73.4% were female and 60.8% were married. Approximately 55.7% of the graduates earned salaries corresponding to 11 and 22 minimum monthly wages. 54 graduates (68.4%) had attended a private medical school. Regarding stricto sensu postgraduate studies, 19 (21.7%) had a master´s degree. 93.7% are practicing their medical specialization and 54 (68.4%) still live in Pernambuco. Regarding public service, 64.6% are linked to the Unified Health System of Pernambuco state. 43% of the graduates worked between 40 and 60 h per week. About 75% of the graduates stated that they would attend the program again at the hospital and declared that completing the residency at the institution facilitated their professional life. Conclusion: the periodic monitoring of graduates from a residency program is a useful tool for evaluating the program and allows for surveillance of implemented interventions
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14279539
title: Humanistic training in Medicine through dancing in the hospital: students’ perceptions

description: Abstract: Introduction: The humanization of assistance is associated to empathy, embracing, and effective communication, being part of the medical training. According to its nature, humanization requires methods that involve affections and stimulates critical thinking. Objective: Extensive literature shows the benefits of the arts in medical education; however, there are still few studies on dancing, the subject of this study, which was carried out by medical students and whose aim was to investigate hospital dancing in the teaching of humanization, from the perspective of medical students. Method: A qualitative action research study was designed, in which medical students performed choreographies for patients, companions and employees in three different wards of the teaching hospital. The action consisted of continuous cycles in the planning of interventions, performance, observing, reflection, and re-planning of subsequent actions, in a systematic manner and controlled by the researchers. Data production took place by direct observation, narratives and focal group. The data were analyzed using the content and thematic analysis methods. Results: For three months, 17 female and 7 male students between 18 and 24 years of age performed the action, producing data that was subsequently classified into 3 thematic categories: 1. Dimension of affection: contents of the student’s emotional character; 2. Care dimension: contents about caring for the patient; 3. Dance dimension: contents on dance in the humanistic training in Medicine. In the triangulation of the techniques, it was observed that joy, anxiety, and the perception of dance as an instrument of bonding were significant. The experience of changing socially-marked places for the student and the patient made the student face and overcome different feelings. The dance allowed the refinement of the look and the capacity to understand the other, taking into account perspectives that converge to or diverge from their own convictions. On the other hand, the students experienced the anxiety and joy of an encounter with themselves, perceiving dance as a pleasurable and humanizing activity. Conclusion: The dance in the hospital lead to experiences and reflections that stimulated the students’ self-knowledge, favored the student-patient relationship, and brought elements to understand the use of dancing in medicine, mainly for the teaching of empathy and humanized care.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14279538
title: Receptiveness to students’ presence at gynecological consultations: patients’ motives and appraisal of learners’ interpersonal communication skills

description: Abstract: Objective: To assess the expectation that the appraisal of students’ interpersonal communication skills in prior appointments affects women’s motives for consenting to or dissenting from the presence of a student and thereby their ultimate receptiveness regarding the learner’s involvement when participating in gynecological consultations. Methods: Face-to-face interviews were used to compile questionnaire data from 469 outpatients at the Brasília University Hospital. We used t-tests to evaluate the differences between the scores of the two motive-related scales of patients with prior experience of student involvement and those of patients without it, as well as contingency analyses to assess the association between the groups of women and an index of their receptiveness to students’ participation in the consultation. Moreover, we performed correlation analyses to verify the interrelationships between the scales and the levels of association of these measures with the index of receptiveness as an outcome. Results: Compared with inexperienced patients, experienced patients exhibited significantly broader receptiveness to students’ participation in consultations (chi-squared = 20.49, df = 3, P &lt; .001; Cramer’s V = 209, P &lt; .001). Broader receptiveness was positively correlated (rho = .314, P &lt; .001) with their motivation to consent to and negatively (rho = -.454, P &lt; .001) correlated with their motivation to dissent from students’ presence at coming consultations. The motivation to consent was significantly higher (P &lt; .001) in experienced women (M = 4.58, SD = .55, n = 408) than in inexperienced ones (M = 4.31, SD = .68, n = 61). The opposite result was true for the motivation to dissent (M = 2.35, SD = .94 vs. M = 2.70, SD = 1.02; P = .007). Notably, for those 408 women, their appraisals of students’ interpersonal communication skills (in a prior consultation) positively correlated (rho = .236, P &lt; .001) with their motivation to consent to and negatively with their motivation to dissent from students’ presence (rho = -.208, P &lt; .001). Conclusion: The findings have implications for both the patients’ role in the gynecological education of medical students and the learners’ qualification in the clinical interview and, therefore, for the benefit of women’s healthcare.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14279538.v1
title: Receptiveness to students’ presence at gynecological consultations: patients’ motives and appraisal of learners’ interpersonal communication skills

description: Abstract: Objective: To assess the expectation that the appraisal of students’ interpersonal communication skills in prior appointments affects women’s motives for consenting to or dissenting from the presence of a student and thereby their ultimate receptiveness regarding the learner’s involvement when participating in gynecological consultations. Methods: Face-to-face interviews were used to compile questionnaire data from 469 outpatients at the Brasília University Hospital. We used t-tests to evaluate the differences between the scores of the two motive-related scales of patients with prior experience of student involvement and those of patients without it, as well as contingency analyses to assess the association between the groups of women and an index of their receptiveness to students’ participation in the consultation. Moreover, we performed correlation analyses to verify the interrelationships between the scales and the levels of association of these measures with the index of receptiveness as an outcome. Results: Compared with inexperienced patients, experienced patients exhibited significantly broader receptiveness to students’ participation in consultations (chi-squared = 20.49, df = 3, P &lt; .001; Cramer’s V = 209, P &lt; .001). Broader receptiveness was positively correlated (rho = .314, P &lt; .001) with their motivation to consent to and negatively (rho = -.454, P &lt; .001) correlated with their motivation to dissent from students’ presence at coming consultations. The motivation to consent was significantly higher (P &lt; .001) in experienced women (M = 4.58, SD = .55, n = 408) than in inexperienced ones (M = 4.31, SD = .68, n = 61). The opposite result was true for the motivation to dissent (M = 2.35, SD = .94 vs. M = 2.70, SD = 1.02; P = .007). Notably, for those 408 women, their appraisals of students’ interpersonal communication skills (in a prior consultation) positively correlated (rho = .236, P &lt; .001) with their motivation to consent to and negatively with their motivation to dissent from students’ presence (rho = -.208, P &lt; .001). Conclusion: The findings have implications for both the patients’ role in the gynecological education of medical students and the learners’ qualification in the clinical interview and, therefore, for the benefit of women’s healthcare.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14279539.v1
title: Humanistic training in Medicine through dancing in the hospital: students’ perceptions

description: Abstract: Introduction: The humanization of assistance is associated to empathy, embracing, and effective communication, being part of the medical training. According to its nature, humanization requires methods that involve affections and stimulates critical thinking. Objective: Extensive literature shows the benefits of the arts in medical education; however, there are still few studies on dancing, the subject of this study, which was carried out by medical students and whose aim was to investigate hospital dancing in the teaching of humanization, from the perspective of medical students. Method: A qualitative action research study was designed, in which medical students performed choreographies for patients, companions and employees in three different wards of the teaching hospital. The action consisted of continuous cycles in the planning of interventions, performance, observing, reflection, and re-planning of subsequent actions, in a systematic manner and controlled by the researchers. Data production took place by direct observation, narratives and focal group. The data were analyzed using the content and thematic analysis methods. Results: For three months, 17 female and 7 male students between 18 and 24 years of age performed the action, producing data that was subsequently classified into 3 thematic categories: 1. Dimension of affection: contents of the student’s emotional character; 2. Care dimension: contents about caring for the patient; 3. Dance dimension: contents on dance in the humanistic training in Medicine. In the triangulation of the techniques, it was observed that joy, anxiety, and the perception of dance as an instrument of bonding were significant. The experience of changing socially-marked places for the student and the patient made the student face and overcome different feelings. The dance allowed the refinement of the look and the capacity to understand the other, taking into account perspectives that converge to or diverge from their own convictions. On the other hand, the students experienced the anxiety and joy of an encounter with themselves, perceiving dance as a pleasurable and humanizing activity. Conclusion: The dance in the hospital lead to experiences and reflections that stimulated the students’ self-knowledge, favored the student-patient relationship, and brought elements to understand the use of dancing in medicine, mainly for the teaching of empathy and humanized care.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14279540
title: Evaluation of anxiety levels and their associated factors in medical interns

description: Abstract: Introduction: The internship period for a medical student is complex and demands attention from medical schools regarding the mental health of these trainee doctors. Objective: Accordingly, the aim of this study was to assess factors associated with anxiety levels among medical interns. Method: A cross-sectional analytical study with a quantitative approach. Two questionnaires were applied, one with sociodemographic, personal and clinical data and the other consisting of the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) Results: 140 medical students were included in the research. Most of the students were 24 years old or under (67.9%); 70.7% were female. The majority were single (54.2%), and lived with family members (68.3%), while 31% reported having a religion. When correlating sociodemographic aspects to levels of anxiety, a much higher frequency of females with mild and moderate anxiety was identified than that of males (p = 0.0133). Personal and clinical aspects compared to the levels of anxiety showed a higher frequency of anxiety in all levels of students who claimed to undergo psychiatric or psychological therapy (p = 0.0110). Suffering from insomnia is related to moderate to severe anxiety (p &lt;0.0001). Using substances that alter sleep is related to a higher frequency of students at all levels of anxiety (p = 0.0099). Satisfaction with academic performance is less related to anxiety levels (p = 0.0017). However, higher frequency in students with moderate to severe and severe anxiety were found in those who reported having already contemplated leaving medical school (p = 0.0239). Conclusion: This study revealed the sociodemographic, personal and clinical aspects and, consequently, the risk factors that are most frequently associated to anxiety in medical interns. Furthermore, it exposes the consequences that the variable levels of anxiety can have on an individual, and it is essential to adopt measures to combat and prevent the development of anxiety symptoms.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14279542
title: Education in the Mais Médicos program: the gap between proposals and implementation

description: Abstract: Introduction: The scarcity and inequalities in the geographical distribution of physicians challenge the consolidation of the right to health and create migratory flows that increase health inequities. Due to their complex and multidimensional characteristics, they demand multisectoral political approaches, considering several factors related to the availability and area of practice of medical doctors, as well as the social vulnerability of local populations. Objective: This study aimed at analysing results of the “Mais Médicos” (More Doctors) Program Educational Axis in Brazil. Methodology: A documental research was conducted, highlighting the location and the public or private nature of new undergraduate medical school vacancies between the years 2013 until 2017, which were then compared to the goals and strategies outlined in the official Program documents. Results: The Educational Axis reached important milestones despite the resistance of some institutional actors. The Program extended its undergraduate vacancies by 7696 places, 22.48% of that in public institutions and 77.52% in private ones. Vacancy distribution prioritized cities in rural areas of Brazil, at the same instance bringing forward significant regulatory changes for undergraduate medical courses. However, political disputes with representatives of medical societies and stakeholders interested in favouring the private educational and healthcare sectors surface in the official discourses and documents. These factors weakened the program normative body, creating a hiatus between its core objectives and respective implementation. Evidence related to the concentration of vacancies in the Southeast regions allow the maintenance of a known unequal workforce distribution, despite a proportionally bigger increase in the Midwest, North and Northeast regions. Conclusion: The predominance of vacancies in private institutions and the weakening of the new undergraduate courses monitoring instruments can compromise changes in the graduate students’ profiles, which are necessary for the fixation of physicians in strategic geographic areas to promote Primary Healthcare.