professionals involves social commitment including
working for others’ benefits rather than for themselves.
In the stage where there is a growing sense that
physicians’ altruism towards their patients is
diminishing, a medical school is obliged to develop
such characteristics among their students. This research
was conducted to examine the characteristics
of altruism in Naresuan University first year medical
students.
Method: A cross-sectional descriptive study was
conducted. A questionnaire about altruistic
characteristics was administered to 175 Naresuan
University first year medical students. Frequency,
percentages, standard deviation, ANOVA, F-test, and
Dunnett T3 for multiple comparisons were used to
analyzed the data.
Results: There were 175 participants .The average
score of altruistic characteristics of Naresuan
University first year medical students was 3.20. It was
found that there were statistically significant
correlations between the method of admission and
the average score at 0.05 level.
Conclusion: Naresuan University first year medical
students had altruistic characteristics at a moderate
level. However, there were differences among students
of different admission methods.