Survey provides no evidence that medical students turn cynical and unaltruistic

Survey provides no evidence that medical students turn cynical and unaltruistic

Medical schools have been accused of turning altruistic young people into cynics more interested in money. To test this accusationPetrie et al asked 520 Auckland medical students at various stagesof the course what they would wish for if granted three wishes(p 1593). The three most popular categories of wishes were forhappiness (34%), for money (32%), and altruistic wishes (31%).Rates of altruistic wishes did not vary over the course $---$ and nordid those for money. Women were more likely to make altruistic,intimacy, and happiness wishes and men to make sexualones.

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