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Swedish medical students' expectations of their future life
Objectives: To investigate future life expectations among male and female medical students in their first and final year. METHODS: The study was cross-sectional and conducted at a Swedish medical school. Out of 600 invited students, 507 (85%) answered an open-ended question about their future life,...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4205516/ http://dx.doi.org/10.5116/ijme.4ec5.92b8 |
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author | Diderichsen, Saima Andersson, Jenny Johansson, Eva E. Verdonk, Petra Lagro-Janssen, Antoine Hamberg, Katarina |
author_facet | Diderichsen, Saima Andersson, Jenny Johansson, Eva E. Verdonk, Petra Lagro-Janssen, Antoine Hamberg, Katarina |
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description | Objectives: To investigate future life expectations among male and female medical students in their first and final year. METHODS: The study was cross-sectional and conducted at a Swedish medical school. Out of 600 invited students, 507 (85%) answered an open-ended question about their future life, 298 (59%) first-year students and 209 (41%) last-year students. Women constituted 60% of the respondents. A mixed model design was applied; qualitative content analysis was utilized to create statistically comparable themes and categories. RESULTS: Students’ written answers were coded, categorized and clustered into four themes: “Work”, “Family”, “Leisure” and “Quality of personal life”. Almost all students included aspects of work in their answers. Female students were more detailed than male ones in their family concerns. Almost a third of all students reflected on a future work-life balance, but considerations regarding quality of personal life and leisure were more common among last-year students. CONCLUSIONS: Today’s medical students expect more of life than work, especially those standing on the doorstep of working life. They intend to balance work not only with a family but also with leisure activities. Our results reflect work attitudes that challenge the health care system for more adaptive working conditions. We suggest that discussions about work-life balance should be included in medical curricula. |
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spelling | pubmed-42055162014-10-23 Swedish medical students' expectations of their future life Diderichsen, Saima Andersson, Jenny Johansson, Eva E. Verdonk, Petra Lagro-Janssen, Antoine Hamberg, Katarina Int J Med Educ Research Article Objectives: To investigate future life expectations among male and female medical students in their first and final year. METHODS: The study was cross-sectional and conducted at a Swedish medical school. Out of 600 invited students, 507 (85%) answered an open-ended question about their future life, 298 (59%) first-year students and 209 (41%) last-year students. Women constituted 60% of the respondents. A mixed model design was applied; qualitative content analysis was utilized to create statistically comparable themes and categories. RESULTS: Students’ written answers were coded, categorized and clustered into four themes: “Work”, “Family”, “Leisure” and “Quality of personal life”. Almost all students included aspects of work in their answers. Female students were more detailed than male ones in their family concerns. Almost a third of all students reflected on a future work-life balance, but considerations regarding quality of personal life and leisure were more common among last-year students. CONCLUSIONS: Today’s medical students expect more of life than work, especially those standing on the doorstep of working life. They intend to balance work not only with a family but also with leisure activities. Our results reflect work attitudes that challenge the health care system for more adaptive working conditions. We suggest that discussions about work-life balance should be included in medical curricula. IJME 2011-11-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4205516/ http://dx.doi.org/10.5116/ijme.4ec5.92b8 Text en Copyright: © 2011 Saima Diderichsen et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use of work provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ |
spellingShingle | Research Article Diderichsen, Saima Andersson, Jenny Johansson, Eva E. Verdonk, Petra Lagro-Janssen, Antoine Hamberg, Katarina Swedish medical students' expectations of their future life |
title | Swedish medical students' expectations of their future life |
title_full | Swedish medical students' expectations of their future life |
title_fullStr | Swedish medical students' expectations of their future life |
title_full_unstemmed | Swedish medical students' expectations of their future life |
title_short | Swedish medical students' expectations of their future life |
title_sort | swedish medical students' expectations of their future life |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4205516/ http://dx.doi.org/10.5116/ijme.4ec5.92b8 |
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