Table 6.

Characteristics of negative role models based on students' views

Themes	Subthemes
Lack of Professional Behaviors	Bad behavior toward students, failure to respect the dignity of others, bad behavior toward patients and their relatives, regarding students as competitors, criticizing other teachers, looking at patients according to their specialty and not from a human perspective, mocking students, and not caring about student rounds.
Poor Clinical Competence	Lack of awareness of patients, undue insistence on diagnosis, failure to identify priorities, poor diagnosis, and weak clinical judgment and reasoning.
Insufficient Knowledge and Information	Inadequate knowledge, ignorance about scientific developments, outdated information, and inadequate familiarity with foreign languages.
Negative Personal Traits	Materialism and excessive regard for money, money worship, narcissism, bad temper, being too strict and inflexible, hypocrisy, being impolite, lack of confidence, being too proud, creating stress, low energy, selfishness, and lack of discipline.