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The psychosocial profile in medical students

El perfil psicosocial en estudiantes de Medicina





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Castaño Castrillón, J. J. (2011). The psychosocial profile in medical students. Archivos De Medicina (Manizales), 11(2), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.30554/archmed.11.2.816.2011
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Castaño Castrillón, J. J. (2011). The psychosocial profile in medical students. Archivos De Medicina (Manizales), 11(2), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.30554/archmed.11.2.816.2011

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José Jaime Castaño Castrillón

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The concern among researchers of medical education process to determine the factors that affect the academic performance of medical students is considerable. It is known that a high score on classic cognitive processes such as cognitive intelligence would be as commonly defined, is not enough to ensure the formation of a good doctor, he should not be the factor
more important. Hojat1 M et al discuss the psychosocial characteristics whose proper development would be vital in the formation of a good doctor. In their paper they develop a questionnaire (questionnaire Jefferson) to measure this psychological factor, and in his article demonstrates the importance of this factor in the academic performance of medical students especially in the field of clinical practice. Carrothers2 et al mention the emotional intelligence as a basic factor for the academic performance of medical students. The term emotional intelligence, analogous to the term cognitive intelligence, is the interpersonal skills of the student, these skills include empathy, compassion and maturity. Other authors mention medical empathy (Hojat3,4, Chen5). Empatía6 The term refers to an aspect of personality that has an important role in
relationships and facilitates the development of communicative competence. communicative competence as the main element of quality in the medical profession is accepted, with a quality that is necessary to develop medical students. They have developed questionnaires to measure psicosocial1 profile emocional7,8 intelligence, and empathy médica6. One is the questionnaire and Empathy Jefferson9. To understand what measures this questionnaire is enough to mention the three categories qualify: perspective taking, compassionate care, zapaos step into the patient. In other words, empathy is the ability of physicians to contact, in tune with their patients. Not only communicate with them, it is to feel in your deepest fears and anxieties, learn to understand them and join them. A doctor with high empathy, is a doctor much content social, humble, unselfish, making his career an apostolate in the style of the great physicians like Hippocrates history.10 San Lucas. Maimonides, Phillipe Pinel, Francis Peabody, Albert Schweitzer, Victor Frankl, Pedro Lain Entralgo, just to mention a few. In contrast to some doctors who are in Colombia,
fortunately few, conceited, smug, with delusions of grandeur, who consider themselves superior to other mortals, demigods who rule over life and death. A process for admission to a medical school must necessarily take account of these considerations. Not only should seek applicants with high cognitive intelligence, but also and perhaps more importantly,
high emotional intelligence, high psychosocial factor, high empathy. These aspects will help them not only to better purely academic performance, but also in better shape to cope with the harshness of medical studies. Be more resilient, more frustration tolerance,
more ability to interact with their environment, with higher
chances of success in the practice of difficult healing art

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