title: Patient-oriented personality traits of first-year pharmacy students.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine, using the Gordon Personal Profile-Inventory (GPP-I), if the personality traits of first-year pharmacy students match the traits required for patient-centered practice.
  
  
  METHODS
  The GPP-I, which measures the personality traits of ascendency, responsibility, emotional stability, sociability, cautiousness, original thinking, personal relations, and vigor, was administered to incoming pharmacy students at the beginning of their first semester.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The pharmacy school had attracted students with strong traits of original thinking, followed by personal relations, and vigor. The students, however, were limited in emotional stability and ascendency.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The pharmacy profession needs to be more proactive in projecting the desired image and communicate its increasingly challenging and patient-oriented practice to attract individuals whose personalities are conducive to current practice models.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Malta, Msida, Malta. maria.cordina@um.edu.mt
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cordina
authors.forename: Mary-Anne
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Lauri
authors.forename: Josef
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lauri
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D010551:Personality; D010555:Personality Inventory; D013339:Students, Pharmacy / Q000523:psychology*; D000078329:Workforce; D055815:Young Adult
references.citation: Am J Hosp Pharm. 1990 Mar;47(3):543-9
references.pmid: 2316539
references.citation: Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2004 Dec 1;61(23):2562-74
references.pmid: 15595234
references.citation: J Clin Pharm Ther. 2007 Dec;32(6):545-56
references.pmid: 18021331
references.citation: Am J Hosp Pharm. 1990 Mar;47(3):533-43
references.pmid: 2316538
references.citation: J Am Pharm Assoc (Wash). 2001 Jul-Aug;41(4):539-50
references.pmid: 11486980
references.citation: Pharmacotherapy. 2001 Oct;21(10):1196-203
references.pmid: 11601666
references.citation: Am J Pharm Educ. 2008 Jun 15;72(3):67
references.pmid: 18698394
references.citation: Pharm World Sci. 1999 Apr;21(2):69-73
references.pmid: 10380233
references.citation: Am J Pharm Educ. 2008 Oct 15;72(5):111
references.pmid: 19214265
references.citation: J Clin Pharmacol. 2001 Jun;41(6):668-76
references.pmid: 11402636
references.citation: J Am Pharm Assoc (2003). 2003 Jul-Aug;43(4):483-7
references.pmid: 12952312
references.citation: Am J Health Syst Pharm. 1999 Dec 1;56(23):2458-62
references.pmid: 10595807
references.citation: Am J Health Syst Pharm. 1999 Sep 1;56(17):1758-64
references.pmid: 10512508
references.citation: Res Social Adm Pharm. 2007 Mar;3(1):47-69
references.pmid: 17350557
references.citation: J Dent Hyg. 1991 Mar-Apr;65(3):130-7
references.pmid: 1856749
references.citation: Patient Educ Couns. 2000 Jan;39(1):61-70
references.pmid: 11013548
references.citation: World Health Organ Tech Rep Ser. 1999;885:i-vi, 1-156
references.pmid: 10352573
references.citation: Am J Pharm Educ. 2008 Jun 15;72(3):56
references.pmid: 18698389
references.citation: Am Pharm. 1995;Suppl:13-8
references.pmid: 7677060