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                                                                                    <journal-title>Tıp Eğitimi Dünyası</journal-title>
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                            <issn pub-type="ppub">1303-328X</issn>
                                                                                                        <publisher>
                    <publisher-name>Tıp Eğitimini Geliştirme Derneği</publisher-name>
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                                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.25282/ted.1779861</article-id>
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                                                            <subject>Medical Education</subject>
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                                                            <subject>Tıp Eğitimi</subject>
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                                                                                                                        <article-title>Assessment Of Malpractice Fear and Occupational Anxiety Of Intern Doctors</article-title>
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                                    <trans-title>İntörn Doktorlarda Malpraktis Korkusu ve Mesleki Kaygı Düzeyinin Değerlendirilmesi</trans-title>
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                                                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2185-1105</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Er</surname>
                                    <given-names>Onur</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>ESKİŞEHİR OSMANGAZİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ, TIP FAKÜLTESİ, DAHİLİ TIP BİLİMLERİ BÖLÜMÜ, HALK SAĞLIĞI ANABİLİM DALI</aff>
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                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1161-0531</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Arslangiray</surname>
                                    <given-names>Özge</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>ESKİŞEHİR OSMANGAZİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ, TIP FAKÜLTESİ, DAHİLİ TIP BİLİMLERİ BÖLÜMÜ, HALK SAĞLIĞI ANABİLİM DALI</aff>
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                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5263-3710</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Arslantaş</surname>
                                    <given-names>Didem</given-names>
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                                                                    <aff>ESKİŞEHİR OSMANGAZİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ, TIP FAKÜLTESİ, DAHİLİ TIP BİLİMLERİ BÖLÜMÜ, HALK SAĞLIĞI ANABİLİM DALI</aff>
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                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8353-1605</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Ünsal</surname>
                                    <given-names>Alaettin</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>ESKİŞEHİR OSMANGAZİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ, TIP FAKÜLTESİ, DAHİLİ TIP BİLİMLERİ BÖLÜMÜ, HALK SAĞLIĞI ANABİLİM DALI</aff>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20260429">
                    <day>04</day>
                    <month>29</month>
                    <year>2026</year>
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                                        <volume>25</volume>
                                        <issue>75</issue>
                                        <fpage>103</fpage>
                                        <lpage>112</lpage>
                        
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                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20250911">
                        <day>09</day>
                        <month>11</month>
                        <year>2025</year>
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                                                    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="20260115">
                        <day>01</day>
                        <month>15</month>
                        <year>2026</year>
                    </date>
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                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2000, Tıp Eğitimi Dünyası</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>2000</copyright-year>
                    <copyright-holder>Tıp Eğitimi Dünyası</copyright-holder>
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                                                                                                <abstract><p>Aim: The internship period is a critical period during which medical candidates experience increased clinical responsibilities and intense professional anxiety and fear of making mistakes. The increased professional responsibilities and concerns about the consequences of decisions made during internships can profoundly impact not only interns&#039; immediate performance but also their long-term professional orientation. Factors such as increased malpractice lawsuits, increased professional responsibilities, and violence in healthcare can negatively impact interns&#039; professional expectations and trigger professional anxiety. Although the number of studies examining professional anxiety and psychological states in medical students has increased in recent years, the current literature is quite limited in assessing the fear of malpractice and professional anxiety levels of interns. This study aimed to assess the levels of fear of malpractice and professional anxiety in interns and to demonstrate the relationship between them.Material and Methods: This is a cross-sectional study conducted on 198 (84.6%) intern physicians studying at Eskişehir Osmangazi University Faculty of Medicine between July and August 2025. Data were collected using a questionnaire form that included sociodemographic characteristics, professional variables that may be associated with malpractice (presence of a physician in the family, personal rights in undergraduate courses, and malpractice training), the Malpractice Fear Scale, and the Professional Anxiety Questionnaire. Chi-square and Spearman correlation tests were used for statistical analyses, with a p≤0.05 level of significance.Results: A high level of fear of malpractice was found in 44.4% of participants. No significant relationship was found between sociodemographic variables and fear of malpractice. However, fear of malpractice was significantly higher among interns who experienced anxiety during patient examinations (p</p></abstract>
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                            <p>Amaç: İntörnlük dönemi, doktor adaylarının klinik sorumluluklarının arttığı, mesleki kaygı ve hata yapma korkusunun yoğun olarak deneyimlendiği kritik bir süreçtir. İntörnlük döneminde artan mesleki sorumluluklar ve alınan kararların sonuçlarına ilişkin kaygılar, intörnlerin yalnızca anlık performanslarını değil; uzun vadeli mesleki yönelimlerini de derinden etkileyebilmektedir. Artan malpraktis davaları, mesleki sorumluluk artışı ve sağlıkta şiddet gibi etmenler intörn doktorların mesleki beklentilerini olumsuz etkileyerek, mesleki kaygının tetiklenmesine neden olabilmektedir.  Her ne kadar son yıllarda tıp fakültesi öğrencilerinde mesleki kaygı ve ruhsal durumların incelendiği çalışmalar sayıca artsa da; mevcut literatürde intörn doktorların malpraktis korkusu ve mesleki kaygı düzeylerinin değerlendirilmesine yönelik yapılan çalışmalar oldukça sınırlıdır.  Bu çalışma, intörn doktorlarda malpraktis korkusu ve mesleki kaygı düzeylerini değerlendirmek ve aralarındaki ilişkiyi ortaya koymak amacıyla yapılmıştır.Yöntem: Çalışma Temmuz–Ağustos 2025 tarihleri arasında Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi’nde öğrenim gören 198 (%84,6) intörn doktor üzerinde yapılan kesitsel tipte bir araştırmadır. Veriler sosyodemografik özellikleri, malpraktis ile ilişkili olabilecek mesleki değişkenleri(ailede hekim varlığı, lisans derslerinde özlük hakları ve malpraktis hakkında eğitim alma durumu) Malpraktis Korku Ölçeği ve Mesleki Kaygı Anketi içeren anket formu ile toplanmıştır. İstatistiksel analizlerde Ki-kare ve Spearman korelasyon testleri kullanılmış, anlamlılık düzeyi p≤0,05 olarak kabul edilmiştir.Bulgular: Katılımcıların %44,4’ünde yüksek düzeyde malpraktis korkusu saptanmıştır. Sosyodemografik değişkenler ile malpraktis korkusu arasında anlamlı ilişki bulunmamıştır. Ancak hasta muayenesi sırasında kaygı hisseden intörnlerde malpraktis korkusu belirgin olarak daha yüksektir (p</p></trans-abstract>
                                                            
            
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                                                    <kwd>Internship</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Malpractice</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Anxiety</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Medical students</kwd>
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                                                    <kwd>İntörnlük</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Malpraktis</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Anksiyete</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Tıp öğrencileri</kwd>
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