Development and validation of the physician self-efficacy to manage emotional challenges Scale (PSMEC).

Background: Medical students experience emotional challenges during their undergraduate education, often related to work-based learning. Consequently, they may experience feelings of uncertainty and self-doubt, which can negatively affect their well-being. Therefore, it is crucial to support students' development of their ability to manage distressful situations.

Contrast-enhanced ultrasound reveals perfusion differences between benign lipoma and semi-malignant atypical lipomatous tumors: A prospective clinical study.

Purpose: Soft tissue tumors (STT) are difficult to diagnose accurately, and distinguishing between benign and malignant tumors is challenging. Lipoma is the most common STT, while atypical lipomatous tumors (ALT) can dedifferentiate into malignant lipomatous tumors like grade 1 liposarcoma and require more radical therapy. This study aims to investigate the potential of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) to differentiate between lipoma and ALT based on tumor perfusion.

The impact of emotionally challenging situations on medical students' professional identity formation.

In their interactions with patients and health care professionals during work-based learning, medical students are known to experience emotionally challenging situations that can evoke negative feelings. Students have to manage these emotions. Students learn and develop their professional identity formation through interactions with patients and members of the healthcare teams.

Can empathy be preserved in medical education?

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate changes in empathy during medical education, as well as to identify promoters and inhibitors of empathy and analyse their roles.

Methods: We used qualitative content analysis to examine 69 critically reflective essays written by medical students as a part of their final examination at the end of the medical program. The essays were based on previous self-evaluations performed each term and represented retrospective reflections on their professional development.

Emotional challenges of medical students generate feelings of uncertainty.

Objectives: Health care students face many situations during their education that might be emotionally challenging. Students are confronted with illness, suffering, death, patient treatment dilemmas, and witnessing unprofessional behaviour on the part of health care professionals. Few studies have focused on what these experiences lead to in relation to the process of becoming a professional.