Personality Change During Medical Residency

University of Coimbra

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Coping Skills; Personality

Treatments: Other: No intervention.

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01574924

PERINT-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Ethics Committee of Hospital and University Center of Coimbra (Portugal) complies, reports and is supervisioned by the Portuguese Ethics Committee.

The Ethics Committee of Hospital and University Center of Coimbra is an multidisciplinary organ of Ethics experts that give support to the board of hospital directors, the health personnel and patients, regarding bioethical issues emerging from clinical assistance activities (addressed to patient's health being, education and clinical research).

Enrollment: 600 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 23 to 45 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Medical residents with ages between 23 and 45 years old, attending the first year of medical specialty in Portugal in the following specialties*: General Surgery, Neurosurgery; Orthopedics; Intern Medicine, Gastroenterology; Cardiology; Rheumatology; Endocrinology; Oncology; Intensive Medicine; Pediatric; Radiology; Clinical Pathology; Neurology and Psychiatry.
• Acceptance and commitment to participate in the study.
• Signature of study' informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

• Attendance, during the study, in an international formative stage with a duration superior to 12 months.
• Previous attendance of other medical specialty for more than one year.
• Present or past history of major psychiatry disorders (illicit drug abuse with dependence, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or schizoaffective disorder)

Trial design

600 participants in 1 patient group

Medical residents

Treatment:

Other: No intervention.