VOLUNTEERING IN MEDICAL SCHOOL AS AN ELEMENT OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Igor E. Zolin
• Alexander A. Iudin
• Anna E. Mazanova

Abstract

The diversity of moods and attitudes of medical students in relation to participation in the volunteer movement is shown. Two trends have been identified related to the motivation for the participation of future doctors in the volunteer movement. The first is determined by the idea of volunteering as a function of a university, the second by the idea of volunteering as an important element of the process of general and professional socialization of young people in the learning process. In relation to the first trend, four groups of medical students were identified: confident, agreeing, doubting and denying, and the second: enthusiastic, positive, neutral, negative. Each of these groups contains its own set of assessments related to the participation of medical students in the volunteer movement. The publication is based on the materials of the author’s sociological study “Medical students on the volunteer movement,” which was conducted in 2023 in 22 medical universities in all federal districts of Russia (n=819).

Keywords: volunteering; medical students; doctor; volunteer activities; education; medical school; professional development

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