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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Present Day Deviations of Thinking
of the Internship Doctors

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Yekhalov V. V. , Sedinkin V. A. 1

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State Institution “Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine”, Ukraine
Received: 14.04.2020; Accepted: 08.05.2020; Published: 30.06.2020

Keywords: education, educational process, conceptual thinking, training, internship doctors

Copyright: © 2020 Yekhalov V. V., Sedinkin V. A. Published by Archives of International Journal
of Science Annals

DOI and UDC DOI 10.26697/ijsa.2020.1.8; UDC 377.018.48:159.955

Conflict of interests: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests

Source of support: This study did not receive any outside funding or support

Information about Yekhalov Vasyl Vitaliyovych – http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5373-3820; Doctor of
the authors: Philosophy in Medicine, Associate Professor, State Institution “Dnipropetrovsk
Medical Academy of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine”, Dnipro, Ukraine.

Sedinkin Vladyslav Anatoliyovych (Corresponding Author) – https://orcid.org/0000-
0002-8894-1598; [email protected]; Doctor of Philosophy in Medicine, Associate
Professor, State Institution “Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy of the Ministry of
Health of Ukraine”, Dnipro, Ukraine.

Dear Editor! a medium level of the elastic thinking was by 11% lower
Within recent years, we have conducted a series of than such rate among the internship doctors majoring in
investigations on the diagnostics of mosaic thinking Anesthesiology and Neurology; and the rate of the
since presently, the process of substitution of the internship doctors with a low level of the theoretical
fragmented (mosaic) thinking for the medical judgment thinking among the doctors majoring in Stomatology,
is progressively going on among the individuals getting was higher by 8% and 9% respectively than such rates
the postgraduate medical education (Yekhalov, among the doctors within two other aforesaid study
Yehorov, Pavlysh, & Barannik, 2020). For the purpose groups. Whilst, the a-priori knowledge enables to
of verbal estimate of the quality of thinking of the apperceive the factual information, to tease out the
internship doctors, we have used a modified test of certain facts from the general observations, to provide
thinking and creativity, which was created by Bruner, an general insight into the certain phenomena (i.e., to reveal
American psychologist. Over three years, an anonymous the essence of such phenomena), to answer the questions
st
testing has been held in four peer groups of the 1 year in relation thereto how and why these or those processes
internship doctors majoring in Anesthesiology, occur in the human body. First of all, the true
Stomatology and Neurology (exactly 100 respondents in professionalism of a doctor is aligned with the
each group). The test questionnaire was focused on the theoretical (reflective) mode of thinking. And exactly
preference of the textual or pictorial information; on the such mode of thinking (but not an algorithm) provides
character of the representation of information (i.e., as a tremendous advantages to a doctor when solving the job
text, as a visual imagery, or both these characters tasks related to the diagnosis, medical treatment and
equally); on the using of the symbolic information prevention.
coding; on the selection of a solution as for the A high level of the imaginative (creative) thinking of the
representation of pictorial information; on the internship doctors majoring in Anesthesiology and
interrelation between the actions themselves and the Neurology, was identical to the level of their theoretical
discussing of such actions; on the extent and rate of the thinking; while the same level among the doctors
information handling; on the way-finding in a non- majoring in Stomatology, was by 5% lower. A medium
homogenous informational space; on the fatigue level, level of the creative thinking prevailed, and it amounted
and so on. almost to 50% in all the groups of respondents; and a
The quantity of the internship doctors with a high level low level of the creative thinking was observed as for
of the theoretical (elastic) thinking has equally ranged in 25% of all the respondents.
the aforesaid study groups (that is, 25%, 24% and 26% The creativity characterizes the creative abilities of an
respectively); thereat, among the internship doctors individual, his/her readiness to the creation of the
majoring in Stomatology, the rate of these doctors with fundamentally-novel ideas which diverge from the

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