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KMID : 0861120150190010011
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Korean Journal of Oriental Preventive Medicine
2015 Volume.19 No. 1 p.11 ~ p.22
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Influences of Education on the Attitudes of Medical Students toward Traditional Korean Medicine
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Sohn Kyeong-jin
Cho Im-Hak
Lee Jung-hyun
Lim Jung-Hwa
Yun Young-Ju
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Abstract
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Objective : This study aims to figure out what the medical students’ attitudes toward traditional Korean medicine (TKM) are and how TKM education affects them.
Method : We performed content analysis on 283 assignments submitted by senior students who took a ‘TKM and complementary alternative medicine (CAM)’ course in a medical school in 2010 and 2011. The assignment was to write an report after reviewing a research article about ‘TKM or CAM’ or interviewing a person engaging in a related field.
Results : 193(68.2%) students chose a article review and 90(31.8%) students chose an interview. Significantly more students chose TKM topic in interview group than in article review group(p=0.021). Most frequent questions in interview are as follows; ‘comparison of TKM and western medicine’(15.7%), ‘education in TKM school’(8.8%), and ‘TKM and evidence based medicine’(8.8%). Among students who expressed their attitudes toward TKM, 52.4% of them showed positive attitudes before entering medical school, however, 54.6% of them showed negative attitudes in medical school years. Among students who indicated attitude change before and after the TKM course, 35.9% of them changed positively.
Conclusion : TKM education might have positive effects on medical students’ attitude toward TKM. It is necessary to expand TKM education and introduce effective education stategy in order to alleviate medical students' misunderstanding and prejudice against TKM.
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KEYWORD
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traditional Korean medicine, medical students’ attitude, CAM education
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