Table 1 Scales, items and reliabilities (alpha) concerning attitudes towards medicine and general practice in particular from medical students of the Maastricht University in 2002/03.
Preferred patient category and type of work: | ||
|---|---|---|
Scale | Items | Alpha |
- Chronically ill patients and palliative care | Chronically ill patients | .72 |
| Â | Geriatric patients | Â |
| Â | Palliative care | Â |
| Â | Long-term contacts with patients | Â |
- Acute patients and technology-orientated work | Technical activities | .75 |
| Â | Highly specialised work | Â |
| Â | Availability of personnel and equipment | Â |
| Â | Emergency care | Â |
| Â | Acute patients | Â |
Preferred work conditions | ||
- Prestige orientation | Income | .70 |
| Â | Career opportunities | Â |
| Â | High status | Â |
- Controllable lifestyle | Part-time work | .76 |
| Â | Regular working hours | Â |
| Â | Leisure time | Â |
Assessment of work in general practice | ||
- Work intrinsic factors | Variety of patients and disorders | .68 |
| Â | Contacts with family of patients | Â |
| Â | Individual treatments | Â |
| Â | Variety of work | Â |
| Â | Collaboration and communication with colleagues | Â |
- Work extrinsic factors | High status | .63 |
| Â | Income | Â |
| Â | Career opportunities | Â |
- Work conditions | Working hours | .81 |
| Â | Work load | Â |