ST-läkares identitetsarbete: En studie av läkare under specialiseringstjänstgöring
(2006)Department of Psychology
- Abstract
- The results from 13 interviews and one opinion poll answered by resident physicians were interpreted as stories about identity as primary material for this thesis. The resident physicians stress the importance of considering whether their work primarily concerns curing people from diseases or if the process of working with sick people also includes how to handle the pressure of work, either by adapting to it or changing it, and the search for balance between work and private life. Residents separate themselves from older physicians by saying that younger physicians accentuate empathy to a greater extent while older physicians emphasise a high work load. Identity seems to effect how the residents perceive and relate to their work,... (More)
- The results from 13 interviews and one opinion poll answered by resident physicians were interpreted as stories about identity as primary material for this thesis. The resident physicians stress the importance of considering whether their work primarily concerns curing people from diseases or if the process of working with sick people also includes how to handle the pressure of work, either by adapting to it or changing it, and the search for balance between work and private life. Residents separate themselves from older physicians by saying that younger physicians accentuate empathy to a greater extent while older physicians emphasise a high work load. Identity seems to effect how the residents perceive and relate to their work, themselves as residents and different types of patients. (Less)
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- author
- Hintze, Nils Petter
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2006
- type
- H3 - Professional qualifications (4 Years - )
- subject
- keywords
- Psykologi, Psychology, postmodernism, coping, yrkesidentitet, läkare, ST-läkare
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1328968
- date added to LUP
- 2006-04-12 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2009-11-17 13:03:46
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abstract = {{The results from 13 interviews and one opinion poll answered by resident physicians were interpreted as stories about identity as primary material for this thesis. The resident physicians stress the importance of considering whether their work primarily concerns curing people from diseases or if the process of working with sick people also includes how to handle the pressure of work, either by adapting to it or changing it, and the search for balance between work and private life. Residents separate themselves from older physicians by saying that younger physicians accentuate empathy to a greater extent while older physicians emphasise a high work load. Identity seems to effect how the residents perceive and relate to their work, themselves as residents and different types of patients.}},
author = {{Hintze, Nils Petter}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{ST-läkares identitetsarbete: En studie av läkare under specialiseringstjänstgöring}},
year = {{2006}},
}