Acceptance of medical students by patients from three outpatient settings in a multi-ethnic Asian population.

摘要

There are few studies on receptivity of Asian patients to medical students and between hospital and primary care clinics. We conducted the anonymous self-administered survey on patients' acceptance of medical student teaching in 73 teaching private family practices, 9 teaching in public family practices and 8 specially clinics teaching in a public hospital in Singapore, a multi-ethnic Asian population. Parents or guardian was interviewed if subject was below 21 years. We used a six-point Likert scale for each question which was dichotomized into positive and negative responses. Ethics approval was obtained from NUS Institutional Review Board. A total of 1252/1519 family practice patients (82.4%), 1412/ 1756 public family practice patients (80.4%) and 1478/1848 public hospital patients responded (80.0%).