Acceptable Level of Professional Conducts  from Health Sciences Students Perspective

Wan Nur Amirah  Ibrahim; Muhammad Hazwan  Husni; Wan Elhami  Wan Omar

doi:10.21834/ebpj.v6i18.3077

Authors

Wan Nur Amirah Ibrahim Centre of Optometry Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Cawangan Selangor, Kampus Puncak Alam, 42300 Selangor, Malaysia.
Muhammad Hazwan Husni Centre of Optometry Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Cawangan Selangor, Kampus Puncak Alam, 42300 Selangor
Wan Elhami Wan Omar Division of Pharmacy & Optometry School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine & Health, The University of Manchester, Carys Bannister Building, Dover Street, Manchester

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v6i18.3077

Abstract

Professionalism among health care practitioners is a critical value. This study aimed to determine the acceptable level of professional conduct from the perspective of undergraduate Health Sciences students of UiTM Puncak Alam and compare the difference of perspectives between the years of study. From 320 participants, the results showed the low level of acceptance towards poor scenarios and significant differences in perspectives between the year of study in scenarios 2,3 and 6; forging experimental results(Ï‡Â²=18.66,p<0.01); intellectual dishonesty(Ï‡²=11.11,p=0.01) and forging classmate's signature(Ï‡²=11.18,p=0.01). The findings provided faculty's administrators with an acceptable level of professional conduct from the perspective of their students.

Keywords: Professionalism, professional conduct, perspective, Health Sciences students

eISSN: 2398-4287Â© 2021. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peerâ€“review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v6i18.3077

Author Biographies

Muhammad Hazwan Husni, Centre of Optometry Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Cawangan Selangor, Kampus Puncak Alam, 42300 Selangor

Bachelor in Optometry. As an optometrist in Putrajaya.

Wan Elhami Wan Omar, Division of Pharmacy & Optometry School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine & Health, The University of Manchester, Carys Bannister Building, Dover Street, Manchester

Wan Elhami Wan Omar is a lecturer at the Centre of Optometry , UiTM Puncak ALam. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Optometry at The University of Manchester. She has been a Principal Investigator for a national grant and has co-authored publications before. Furthermore, she has supervised many final year students' projects and a Master's student. Her current research interests are in myopia, public health, and behavioural optometry.