The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Medical Students' Attitudes of Professionalism: A Web Based Cross-Sectional Study

Abstract

In this study, it is aimed to investigate the effect of the pandemic on the professionalism attitudes of medical students. This cross-sectional study was conducted with 329 medical students. The data was collected with sociodemographic information form and Pennsylvania State University Faculty of Medicine Professionalism Attitude Scale. Data were collected via an online survey. SPSS 20 package program was used for statistical analysis. The statistical significance level was p0.05). Gender, program, and presence of a doctor in the family had no significant effect on attitude scores (p>0.05). Students who stated that they preferred medical school because they had an ideal/dream and to help people had significantly higher attitude scores than students who preferred it for other reasons (p