title: Personality and clinical skills: any correlation?
abstract: BACKGROUND
  To determine correlations between personality factors and clinical skills of second-year medical school students.
  
  
  METHODS
  Participants were 206 medical students who had completed the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) and the Clinical Skills Assessment II (CSA II).
  
  
  RESULTS
  of the 16PF and CSA II were analyzed using Pearson R. Results Overall CSA II score correlated positively with Warmth and negatively with Abstractedness and Privateness. Communication skills correlated positively with Warmth, Emotional Stability, and Perfectionism and negatively with Privateness. Data gathering correlated positively with Warmth and negatively with Abstractedness. Physical exam and Case presentation subtests had no correlates.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The findings of this study suggest that a relationship may exist between personality and clinical skills.
authors.affiliation: University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, 231 Albert Sabin Way, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0552, USA. manuelrs@ucmail.uc.edu
authors.forename: R Stephen
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Manuel
authors.forename: Nicole J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Borges
authors.forename: Holly A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Gerzina
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D015146:Midwestern United States; D010551:Personality; D010555:Personality Inventory; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*