However, other diabetic informants reported feeling ostracized or resented by their families, especially due to the extra burden of preparing special meals.
Information (4 items, 15.6%) comprised items tapping feelings of being prepared and receiving relevant information during childbirth.
The examination of these factors might give new insights into the underlying aspects of "feeling prepared for being a doctor".
The curriculum had significant positive outcomes for the residents' self rating of feeling prepared for different skills in the care for a dying child.
Adjusting for other factors, students who felt skilled working with interpreters had 10 times the odds of feeling prepared to work with LEP patients (95% CI (5.24, 21.4)) compared to those who felt less skilled.
Hispanic ethnicity was independently associated with a 2 to 5-fold increase in the odds of feeling prepared to care for LEP patients as compared to White non-Hispanics, Asians or Pacific Islanders, Black non-Hispanics, and other race/ethnic categories, with all comparisons being statistically significant except for Whites.
The following items were assessed: fulfillment of expectations for the course; feeling of being well prepared for medical clerkships; competence of peer tutors; confidence with respect to the management of difficult situations; and whether the tutee would recommend the course to fellow students.
In year one, ethnicity was a statistically significant predictor of doctors' feeling prepared (49.3% of white doctors and 45.3% of non-whites agreed that they felt well prepared, p < 0.001), and sex, intercalated degree status and graduate status at entry to medical school were not (p = 0.05, 0.7, 0.6 respectively).
We had to get from the bottom to the top without feeling we were preparing for an ascent of K2.
I had a feeling they were preparing," he said.
