The Preferences of Intern Doctors for Medical Specialization, Influencing Factors of Their Preferences and Their Perspective Towards Family
Journal Title: Eurasian Journal of Family Medicine - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 2
Abstract
Aim: Our aim is to investigate the medical specialization preferences of medical students, variables which influence the preferences of the speciality and the perspective towards family medicine internship . Methods: 142 sixth grade medical students from Dicle University Medical Faculty participated in this cross sectional study. All of the students in each group were given a question form in the observation of a lecturer from a Family Medicine Department about their choices of branch, socio-demographic features and possible reasons for choosing the preferred specialty at the beginning as well as at the end of the internship of family medicine. Results: Average age was found to be 24.65±1.5 years. 69.7% (n=99) wanted to specialize in any area of medicine and 76.1% (n=61) were actively studying for the medicine specialty exam. Before family health care rotation, the most preferred branches were internal medicine; 13.8% (n=14), cardiology 13.6% (n=13), emergency medicine 8.9% (n=9) whereas after the rotation; the preferences were family medicine was 20.4% (n=22), internal medicine was 13.8% (n=14), emergency medicine was 8.9% (n=9), cardiology was 9.4% (n=10). The least preferred ones were pathology, neurology and gynecology respectively. When the students were asked about the reasons which influenced their choices; it was seen that allocating time to personnel and private life was 71.8% (n=102), risk and responsibility was 11.2% (n=16). Conclusion: This trend suggests that allocating time to family and private life and enabling a good social life are dominant factors in the process of choosing a specialization at medicine. Our own study results indicate that there is increase in the preference rate of family medicine practice at the end of the family medicine rotation.
Authors and Affiliations
Ahmet Yilmaz, Necmi Arslan, Pakize Gamze Erten Bucaktep, Hamza Aslanhan, Erkan Kibrisli
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