Abstract
Objective : Acquisition of professional competence is a difficult, but very important task for physicians. In order to clarify methods of building professional competence, a questionnaire survey focusing on growth-satisfaction-rating was conducted among recent graduates.
Methods : Major components necessary for acquisition of professional competence were defined as relationship, context, cognitive, habits of mind, affective/moral, and integrative. Questions regarding the acquisition of these components were created and sent to 1186 physicians who had graduated from Juntendo University School of Medicine between 1992 and 2006. The responses to the survey were analyzed in relation to the number of years after graduation, gender, specialty, university staff or private practice, and as a whole. The data were analyzed using multiple regression analysis, and growthsatisfaction-rating was used as dependent variable.
Results : The response rate was 40.6%. The responses showed that cognitive, habits of mind, affective/moral, and integrative skills were more easily built. However, relationship and context seemed to be difficult to build.
Conclusion : This study suggested that when we consider building professional competence, the daily study environment and situation should be designed to further emphasize the building of relationships and context as well as the other components.
