The emotions in the professional development of anesthesiology residents

Abstract

The objective of this work is to describe the spectrum of emotions experienced by anesthesiology residents during their professional development.
The study was to identify the types of reflective thinking that residents develop in the process of learning their specialty. The methodology in this study was of
the qualitative variety and 34 anesthesiology residents participated. The methodological technique utilized was of portfolio construction - a tool for reflection in which they wrote amongst other topics, their experienced
emotions. The results present 13 residents who allude to emotions as part of the carried out reflection describing their learning process. The emotions were: fear, anxiety, shame, sadness, frustration, blame and joy, that is, negative
emotions dominated as there was only one positive emotion, joy. Conclusions include that the reflective process was not uniformly developed in the residents,
as it was more centered in biomedical knowledge and less upon reflecting on their personal experience.