Willingness of medical undergraduate students choose general practitioners in community health-care service as their career
- VernacularTitle:临床医学本科生选择社区卫生服务机构就业意愿的调查分析
- Author:
Qing GUO
;
Chenjia MAO
;
Zhixin JIANG
;
Lei YANG
;
Jianchun YUAN
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Students,medical;
Community health services;
Career choice
- From:
Chinese Journal of General Practitioners
2008;7(12):814-817
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To understand willingness of current medical undergraduates to work at community health-care service(CHS)institutions after their graduation to provides information for professional training for them.Methods Totally,2714 medical undergraduate students were recruited from three medical schools in east,middle and west China by multi-level sampling methods for questionnaire survey on their basic information and willingness to be employed at CHS institutions.results of the survey were described by relative numeric and tested by chi-square test for smtistical inference.Results About 60.6%of medical undergraduate students were willing to work at CHS organizations permanently or temporarily.Their willingness to work there differed with their native living areas and grades they were studying significantly(P＜0.01).Reason for those they would work at CHS organizations after graduation included work less stress and easier,and that for those reluctant to work there included low-income and lack of social respect for general practitioners.Conclusions Nowadays,few medical undergraduate students would like to work at CHS organizations after their graduation,which was influenced mainly by traditional ideas and concepts of employment,personal career devdopment,economic income,and so on.It is suggested that ideas of community work be strengthened for medical undergraduate students and their employment concepts be changed in the future.
