The process of the socialization of first year
medical students is analyzed according to a paradigm of
adult socialization. This paradigm consists of three sets
of variables, that is, independent variable (I), personal
background characteristics, independent variable (II),
elements of interpersonal relation in which students are
involved, and dependent variable, the cultural content of
socialization.
The study shows (a) that during the first year
the medical students tend to think of the first year as
the least important period for their later career. Besides
being least important, the first year appears to be the
most difficult. They also feel hard pressed for time--
there seems to be too much to learn for the time allowed.
However, they expect that as they go through medical school,
their training will be less difficult. A majority of them
find themselves very much involved in the competition
among themselves. Their attitudes towards this are rather
neutral. They express satisfaction with their faculty
members in the given direction in their studies. (b) In
the assessment of their performance during their training,
a majority of the students classify themselves as average,
the reference point of which is largely found in themselves
rather than in their fellow students, or in the opinion of
the faculty members. (c) With regard to their attitudes
and values; students tend to hold the initial values which
they had on entering medical school, namely, "people-orientation."
No student thinks of himself as a doctor in
The first year, in fact, from the beginning he did not
expect to establish his professional self-image in the
first year. On the other hand, the outline of the image of
physician which emerged on entry into medical school remains
almost the same at the end of the year with only a slight
modification. The image is characterized primarily by
personality traits, and a task-oriented emphasis. As the
year comes to an end, a substantial proportion of students
tend to specify themselves as preferring general practice
as their later career. This was not chosen by anyone at
the beginning of the year. Their expected income differs
little from the actual current income of physicians. They
tend to express more satisfaction with their chosen career
as they progress through the first year. / Arts, Faculty of / Sociology, Department of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/42397 |
| Date | January 1961 |
| Creators | Chang, Yunshik |
| Publisher | University of British Columbia |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use. |
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