[Personality as a determinant of the functioning of future preventive medicine doctors]. / Osobowosc jako wyznacznik funkcjonowania przyszlego lekarza medycyny profilaktycznej.

The paper presents the results of the research on the personality of 1st, 3rd and 6th year students of the Faculty of Medicine of Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences in Poznan. The concept of personality, which is a base of this research, embraces the five dimensions: neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness, each of which includes six factors allowing for their separate classification. That is the so-called five-factor model of personality, which is most widely presented in the works of Ostendorf and Angleitner and Costy and McCrea. The doctor's personality is an important determinant of his or her functioning in the profession. It influences the vital elements of the effectiveness of their preventive actions such as: establishing maintaining of a good interpersonal contact, persuasion skills which may lead to a change of lifestyle and adopting a health oriented approach. Those tasks are and will remain to be of particular importance for the fact that the targets of contemporary medicine, which is directed at prevention of civilization diseases and their treatment.