GENDER DIFFERENCES IN THE PERCEPTION OF PRESENCE OF, AND SEARCH FOR, CALLING DURING MEDICAL SCHOOL
Journal Title: Problems of Education in the 21st Century - Year 2015, Vol 67, Issue 10
Abstract
This study focused on the manner in which a sense of calling - presence and search - is perceived by frst- and fnal-year male and female medical students. Differences in level of calling between frst-year students and last-year students were predicted, more so for women than for men due to gender bias and family-work integration challenges. A total of 192 medical frst and sixth (last) year students at the fve Israeli medical schools flled-out a short self-report measure of calling and recorded demographic factors. Discriminate function analysis resulted in one signifcant discriminate function weighted positively on presence of calling and negatively on search for calling. Group centroids indicate that male medical students perceived presence of calling and search for calling as two poles of a bipolar continuum, whereas frst-year students had a distinct feeling of the presence of calling coupled with a low need to search for calling and fnal-year students had a low feeling of presence of calling coupled with a distinct need to search for calling. In contrast, female medical students - both frst-year and fnal-year - perceived presence and search as two independent dimensions that can coexist. Understanding these differences may be important in helping medical educators fnd gender-specifc ways to maintain and enhance feelings of calling among tomorrow’s male and female physicians.
Authors and Affiliations
Hadassah Littman-Ovadia, Aryeh Lazar, Tamar Ovadia
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