Professional values at the beginning of medical school: a quasi-experimental study.

Background: Teaching professionalism in medical schools is central to medical education and society. We evaluated how medical students view the values of the medical profession on their first day of medical school and the influence of a conference about the competences of this profession on these students' levels of reflection.

Methods: We studied two groups of medical students who wrote narratives about the values of the medical profession and the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on these values.

Medical students' and residents' views on euthanasia.

Background: Doctors are increasingly faced with end-of-life decisions. Little is known about how medical students approach euthanasia. The objective of this study was to evaluate, among medical students and residents, the view on euthanasia and its variants; correlate such a view with empathy and religiosity/spiritualism; and with the stages of medical training in Brazil.

[Implementation of a residency program in anesthesiology in the Northeast of Brazil: impact on work processes and professional motivation].

Background And Objectives: Understand, through the theory of social representations, the influence exerted by the establishment a residency program in anesthesiology on anesthetic care and professional motivation in a tertiary teaching hospital in the Northeast of Brazil.

Method: Qualitative methodology. The theoretical framework comprised the phenomenology and the Social Representation Theory.

Empathy among medical students: is there a relation with quality of life and burnout?

Background: We aimed to assess medical students' empathy and its associations with gender, stage of medical school, quality of life and burnout.

Method: A cross-sectional, multi-centric (22 medical schools) study that employed online, validated, self-reported questionnaires on empathy (Interpersonal Reactivity Index), quality of life (The World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment) and burnout (the Maslach Burnout Inventory) in a random sample of medical students.

Results: Out of a total of 1,650 randomly selected students, 1,350 (81.