The association between medical students' motivation with learning environment, perceived academic rank, and burnout.

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Author	Zalts, Ronen Green, Nathaniel Tackett, Sean Lubin, Robert
Copyright Year	2021
Abstract	ObjectivesTo assess thecorrelations between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, personal growth andquality of life with learning environment perceptions, perceived academic rankand burnout among medical students.MethodsCross-sectionalquestionnaires were administered to medical students at three medical schoolsin Israel, Malaysia, and China, at the end of one academic year. Surveysincluded demographic data, students' perceived academic rank, two learningenvironment perceptions scales, and scales for personal growth, goalorientation, burnout and quality of life. Comparative analyses were made todetermine the significance of relationships between the outcome measures andcontrol variables, using a series of t-tests. Pearson correlation coefficientswere used to test the hypothesis.ResultsSixty-four percent(400/622) of the students responded. Significant correlations were foundbetween: intrinsic motivation (r(398) =.37, p<.001); personalgrowth (r(398)=.62, p<.001); and quality of life (r(398)=.48, p <.001) with higher learning environment perceptions, intrinsicmotivation (r(398)= .21, p<.001); personal growth (r(398) =.21, p< .001); and quality of life (r(398)=.18, p<.001) withperceived academic rank, and negative correlation between personal growth (r(398) =-.38, p<.001); and quality of life (r(398) =-.42, p<.001)with burnout.ConclusionsIntrinsicmotivation, personal growth and quality of life are correlated with higherlearning environment perceptions and perceived academic rank. Burnout isinfluenced by personal growth and quality of life. We suggest focusing onmotivation profiles before acceptance to medical school and during studies.
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Journal	International Journal of Medical Education [Int J Med Educ]
Volume Number	12
DOI	10.5116/ijme.5ff9.bf5c
PubMed Central reference number	PMC7883805
PubMed reference number	33513127
e-ISSN	20426372
Language	English
Publisher	IJME
Publisher Date	2021-01-28
Access Restriction	Open
Rights License	This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use of work provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Copyright: © 2021 Ronen Zalts et al.
Subject Keyword	Learning environment medical students extrinsic motivation intrinsic motivation burnout
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Medicine