Worku Animaw Temesgen

Medical Students' Acceptance by Patients: Patients' Attitude Towards Medical and Health Science Students Involvement in Their Health Worku Animaw Temesgen

A most important function and aim of a university hospital is to educate students. The other main role of these hospitals is to care and protect their clients/patients. However, deaths in such university hospitals attributed to medical error are estimated to be the third leading cause of death. The involvement of students in patient care is considered to be the cause of these much death. 26.8% patients had negative attitude to health science students who were in clinical practice. Medical students are our future health care takers therefore they should be skilled in practice, but their lack of clinical knowledge, inexperience and lack of confidence let them vulnerable to not to have positive acceptance by patients. Every problem has a solution, only if we perhaps know the gap in our attitude make our attitude positive.