title: An initial explanatory model of a medical students' preferences for patient types.
abstract: Previous studies suggest that medical students and doctors may express a range of positive and negative attitudes and behaviours towards patients. As an initial attempt to understand how attitudes toward patients are formed, first-year medical students were asked to describe their feelings about six categories of patients. These reactions were then correlated with the students' social background, social values and perception of these conditions.
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003710:Demography; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010465:Perception; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012945:Social Values; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*