Domaradzki Jan, Walkowiak Dariusz
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland.
Department of Organization and Management in Health Care, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland.
Front Public Health. 2021 Apr 13;9:618608. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.618608. eCollection 2021.
From the very first moment coronavirus struck, medical students volunteered to support healthcare professionals' fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. To learn more about future healthcare professionals' volunteering during such an outbreak, we conducted a survey among 417 students of Poznan University of Medical Sciences. Our findings suggest that although numerous studies demonstrate that traditional, value-based volunteering is decreasing, and especially higher education students are more oriented toward their own career, in the times of the current health crisis, young peoples' involvement in volunteering has been mainly driven by altruism and the ethical imperative to serve their community, their fellow healthcare professionals and their patients. Thus, while the prime role of the volunteering was to relieve the healthcare system, it also reinforced such important medical values as altruism, public service and professional solidarity. Moreover, it proved that whilst risk is inherent to medicine, the students' volunteering is truly a moral enterprise.
从冠状病毒爆发的最初时刻起，医学生就自愿支持医护人员抗击新冠疫情。为了更深入了解未来医护人员在这样一场疫情中的志愿服务情况，我们对波兹南医科大学的417名学生进行了一项调查。我们的研究结果表明，尽管众多研究表明，传统的、基于价值观的志愿服务正在减少，尤其是高等教育学生更倾向于关注自身职业发展，但在当前的健康危机时期，年轻人参与志愿服务主要是出于利他主义以及服务社区、医护同行和患者的道德责任。因此，虽然志愿服务的主要作用是缓解医疗系统的压力，但它也强化了利他主义、公共服务和职业团结等重要的医学价值观。此外，这证明了尽管医学本身存在风险，但学生的志愿服务确实是一项道德事业。
