Department of Medical Education and Informatics, Hacettepe University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
Adv Physiol Educ. 2023 Jun 1;47(2):166-174. doi: 10.1152/advan.00049.2022. Epub 2023 Jan 26.
Social responsibility (SR) is a fundamental value among physicians, who must maintain a positive attitude toward it during medical education by providing community service. This study investigated the impacts of service learning-based social responsibility training (SRT) by evaluating the SR perceptions of medical students who had participated in an SRT program and their views on the impacts of SRT on themselves, their institution, and the studied target groups. Four focus group interviews were held with 32 medical students, following a determined purposeful sampling method. Guided by qualitative content analysis, the data were analyzed through an iterative coding process. The analysis of the students' perceptions of SR revealed 13 themes in the impact of SRT: 7 for medical students, 4 for the medical school, and 2 for the studied target groups. The students explained SR with concepts of responsibility, volunteering, sensitivity, kindness, and community orientation and believed that SRT practices based on service learning effectively deepen the understanding of SR and the needs of the target groups in which they work. Communication, teamwork, leadership, and project management skills were defined as students' achievements. SRT practices had a positive effect on the studied target groups by meeting their physical and emotional needs; furthermore, they increased their medical school's recognition and accountability in society. Therefore, providing service learning-based experiences with reflection opportunities throughout medical education supports the development of medical students' understanding of SR, which can be strengthened with a supportive corporate culture and by improving the faculty's role-modeling and tutoring skills. Social responsibility is a fundamental value among physicians, who must maintain a positive attitude toward it during medical education by providing community service. Providing service learning-based experiences with reflection opportunities throughout medical education supports the development of medical students' understanding of social responsibility, which can be strengthened with a supportive corporate culture and by improving the faculty's role-modeling and tutoring skills.
社会责任 (SR) 是医生的基本价值观之一，他们在医学教育中必须通过提供社区服务来保持积极的态度。本研究通过评估参与服务学习型社会责任培训 (SRT) 计划的医学生的 SR 感知，以及他们对 SRT 对自己、所在机构和所研究目标群体的影响的看法，调查了 SRT 的影响。采用确定的目的性抽样方法，对 32 名医学生进行了 4 次焦点小组访谈。在定性内容分析的指导下，通过迭代编码过程对数据进行分析。学生对社会责任的看法分析揭示了 SRT 影响的 13 个主题：7 个与医学生有关，4 个与医学院有关，2 个与所研究的目标群体有关。学生们用责任、志愿服务、敏感性、善良和社区导向等概念来解释社会责任，并认为基于服务学习的 SRT 实践可以有效地加深对社会责任和他们所服务的目标群体需求的理解。沟通、团队合作、领导力和项目管理技能被定义为学生的成就。SRT 实践通过满足目标群体的身体和情感需求对目标群体产生了积极影响；此外，还提高了医学院在社会中的认可度和责任感。因此，在医学教育中提供具有反思机会的服务学习经验有助于医学生对社会责任的理解，而支持性的企业文化和提高教师的榜样作用和辅导技能可以加强这种理解。
