The ability to make decisions and self reliance are essential to the doctor to be able to perform competently. The competency based problem based educational programme at Tikrit University College of Medicine (TUCOM) include considerable learning and...
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The ability to make decisions and self reliance are essential to the doctor to be able to perform competently. The competency based problem based educational programme at Tikrit University College of Medicine (TUCOM) include considerable learning and training opportunities for students to acquire number of essential competences as early as first year. The ability to rely on own self and make decisions are among the hidden curricular competences. This study uses Sack’s Sentence Completion Test (SSCT) to evaluate the two abilities shown by a cohort of students in TUCOM before start of study and after two and a half years of study over early the importance of professional skills they need to acquire during study years. Comparing data taken before and after study, results show a decrease in number of students with negative personalities who feel completely incompetent in regard to the two abilities and being hopeless and increase in number of students with positive personality who feel con
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