Factors Influencing Undergraduate Students' Preference of Health Sciences Specialties.
applied medical sciences
choice
factors
personal
speciality
students
Journal
Advances in medical education and practice
ISSN: 1179-7258
Titre abrégé: Adv Med Educ Pract
Pays: New Zealand
ID NLM: 101562700
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2022
2022
Historique:
received:
11
06
2022
accepted:
26
09
2022
entrez:
28
10
2022
pubmed:
29
10
2022
medline:
29
10
2022
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
It is necessary to determine what motivates students to pursue a particular specialty of their choosing to maintain a balance of medical practitioners from various disciplines. The study aims to assess factors influencing undergraduate students of Applied Medical Sciences in choosing a specialty or discipline. This cross-sectional study was conducted among first-year students of the faculty of applied medical sciences at Taibah University. One hundred and twenty-five participants were enrolled in the study. The students were asked to respond and complete the designed 9-item questionnaire. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (BM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 23.0, Armonk, NY: IBM Corp.) was used to analyze the data. A comparison between departments of the faculty was carried out. 125 participants were satisfied with their current faculty or discipline. They stated that medicine was the first choice (43.2%), followed by clinical nutrition (11.2%), dentistry (8%), diagnostic radiology (7.2%), and clinical laboratory (5.6%). The most important factors that affect students' choice of discipline were helping patients and the community (32.8%), personal desire (30.4%), personal desire and helping patients (22.4%), and job opportunity and prestige (9.5%), with gender variations. Family enforcement and finances were less frequent factors affecting students' specialty preferences. The human medicine specialization was the first choice for most female and male undergraduate students who entered the faculty of applied medical sciences. Furthermore, the most influencing factor affecting students' choices was helping patients and the community.
Sections du résumé
Background
UNASSIGNED
It is necessary to determine what motivates students to pursue a particular specialty of their choosing to maintain a balance of medical practitioners from various disciplines.
Objective
UNASSIGNED
The study aims to assess factors influencing undergraduate students of Applied Medical Sciences in choosing a specialty or discipline.
Methods
UNASSIGNED
This cross-sectional study was conducted among first-year students of the faculty of applied medical sciences at Taibah University. One hundred and twenty-five participants were enrolled in the study. The students were asked to respond and complete the designed 9-item questionnaire. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (BM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 23.0, Armonk, NY: IBM Corp.) was used to analyze the data. A comparison between departments of the faculty was carried out.
Results
UNASSIGNED
125 participants were satisfied with their current faculty or discipline. They stated that medicine was the first choice (43.2%), followed by clinical nutrition (11.2%), dentistry (8%), diagnostic radiology (7.2%), and clinical laboratory (5.6%). The most important factors that affect students' choice of discipline were helping patients and the community (32.8%), personal desire (30.4%), personal desire and helping patients (22.4%), and job opportunity and prestige (9.5%), with gender variations. Family enforcement and finances were less frequent factors affecting students' specialty preferences.
Conclusion
UNASSIGNED
The human medicine specialization was the first choice for most female and male undergraduate students who entered the faculty of applied medical sciences. Furthermore, the most influencing factor affecting students' choices was helping patients and the community.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36304980
doi: 10.2147/AMEP.S377344
pii: 377344
pmc: PMC9596231
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
1351-1358Informations de copyright
© 2022 Gameraddin et al.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors have no conflict of interest regarding this study.
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