Assessment of Professionalism Attitudes in Students of Government and Private Medical College Using Learner’s Attitudes to Medical Professionalism Scores (LAMPS)
Saima Batool, Rabeya Rehman, Muhammad Naveed, Sobia Qamar, Qanbar Abbas Naqvi, Aneela Shaheen
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ABSTRACT
Objectives: To assess
and compare the student’s attitude to professionalism among government and
private medical colleges.
Research question: Are there
any differences in Professionalism attitudes of students studying in government
and Private medical colleges of Pakistan?
Hypothesis:
Professionalism attitudes of Medical students studying in government and
Private medical colleges do not differ from each other.
Method: A
government medical college of Sargodha & a Private medical college of
Lahore were chosen for the study. Study was conducted from May to June 2019.
200 Final year MBBS students were given a questionnaire named Pakistani LAMPS
validated through a pilot study. Non probability purposive sampling technique
was used. We applied statistical test chi square used for analysis in SPSS 21
version.
Results: Out of
the study participants, there were 76(38%) were male &124(62%) female. The
Pakistani LAMPS had an acceptable reliability index with a Cronbach’s alpha of
0.71. The items mean scores vary between (1.93+ 1.03 and 3.00+ SD 3.78, scale
1–5). The score was high significantly in Private medical college students
(107/140) than Public medical college (95/140) with p value of 0.0001.
Conclusion: The null
hypothesis was rejected because the professionalism score of private medical
college students was higher than that of government medical college students.
Keywords: Professionalism,
Attitudes, LAMPS Government, Private, Medical Education