title: Professional behaviour of medical school graduates: an analysis.
abstract: Recent graduates (1989-1990) of a traditional school of Chinese medicine were assessed by observers using a 10-item scale for professional behaviour in the non-cognitive realm. Overall, 10.7% of the graduates had low ratings on this scale. Of those who scored in the top two quartiles on this scale, 71.4% reported that 'Professional ethics' was the key determinant of their professional behaviour, whereas legal concerns were the prime motivator for only 3.6% of the top scorers. It was also found that students' scores in the medical ethics course correlated with their professional behaviour score to a statistically significant degree.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Human Traditional College of Chinese Medicine, Changsha, Hunan.
authors.forename: Y H
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: X Y
authors.initials: XY
authors.lastname: Meng
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002681:China; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D035863:Moral Development; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology*; D011364:Professional Practice; D013663:Teaching