Are Medical Students Agreeable Summary

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Abstract
Chibnall, author of “Are Medical students agreeable”, examines medical student relationships between skills, behaviors, and its effects on student personalities. Based on research done by the medical students and reported to Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), there are numerous clinical competencies expectations connected to good communication skills as professionalism. Some basic skills required to develop respectable clinical communication includes trust, understanding different people and their cultures and sensitivities, sharing spirituality and beliefs, and show appreciation.
In the article, Costa and McRrae, two researchers of the five factor model of personality, referred to agreeable people as being more trusting, straightforward, altruistic, cooperative, modest, and empathic. The question still remains whether or not medical students are more or less agreeableness then other professions. Is it reasonable to expect a medical student to be more agreeable than a police officer?
This research objective was to see if medical students were more agreeable than police officer recruits. The prediction was that the medical students scores would show more agreeable than police officers. A survey was done at Saint Louis University
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Higher openness scores show likely to be more imaginative and lower openness is more predictable with traditional values. Higher conscientiousness scores are more organized and reliable than the lower. Higher extraversion scores are more friendly and lower extraversion are more reserved. Higher agreeableness scores display more trusting of others and shows empathy. Lower agreeableness scores show more disbelief and social manipulating. Higher neuroticism shows more thoughtlessness and weakness under stress. Lower neuroticism scores show less of a negative