title: Attitudinal changes in medical students taking a course in human values.
abstract: A semantic differential test was used to find out whether a course in human values in medicine produced changes in the attitudes of students who took the course as compared with the attitudes of those who did not. The results showed that students taking the course retained certain positive values as compared with the student group not taking the course, which showed only negative shifts in values. Possible reasons for these changes are discussed.
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000592:standards*; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D012659:Semantic Differential; D013337:Students, Medical