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Choice of medicine program: A single-institution study
INTRODUCTION: The decision to apply for medical school is the first and one of the most important career choices that a physician will ever make and the motives for choosing a career in medicine seem to remain relatively stable during medical school. Our study aimed to investigate what motivated the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9486612/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36147114 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.104410 |
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author | Ikram, Nadeem Mousa, Ahmed Hafez Alshanberi, Asim Muhammad Mohammad, Salwa Agha Radwan, Hanin Awais, Muhammad Majeed, Mudassar |
author_facet | Ikram, Nadeem Mousa, Ahmed Hafez Alshanberi, Asim Muhammad Mohammad, Salwa Agha Radwan, Hanin Awais, Muhammad Majeed, Mudassar |
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description | INTRODUCTION: The decision to apply for medical school is the first and one of the most important career choices that a physician will ever make and the motives for choosing a career in medicine seem to remain relatively stable during medical school. Our study aimed to investigate what motivated the students, their satisfaction with the PBL curriculum and their plans following graduation. METHODS: A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out from Jan to March 2021 at Batterjee medical college, Jeddah. The data was collected on a questionnaire from undergraduate students of first year till the internship year. RESULTS: Among the 112 students who completed the questionnaire, 85 (75.9%) chose studying medicine to be their own choice, with service to humanity 56 (50%) being the main reason, followed by monetary 20 (18.8%) reasons. Generally 78 (69.6%) of the responders preferred the PBL curriculum over the traditional one. Most of the students 42 (37.5%) planned to undergo the residency program in Saudi Arabia, with general surgery being the specialty preferred by 33 (29.5%) students. CONCLUSION: The findings in our study suggest that altruism is the most common influencing factor that led students joining a medical college |
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spelling | pubmed-94866122022-09-21 Choice of medicine program: A single-institution study Ikram, Nadeem Mousa, Ahmed Hafez Alshanberi, Asim Muhammad Mohammad, Salwa Agha Radwan, Hanin Awais, Muhammad Majeed, Mudassar Ann Med Surg (Lond) Cohort Study INTRODUCTION: The decision to apply for medical school is the first and one of the most important career choices that a physician will ever make and the motives for choosing a career in medicine seem to remain relatively stable during medical school. Our study aimed to investigate what motivated the students, their satisfaction with the PBL curriculum and their plans following graduation. METHODS: A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out from Jan to March 2021 at Batterjee medical college, Jeddah. The data was collected on a questionnaire from undergraduate students of first year till the internship year. RESULTS: Among the 112 students who completed the questionnaire, 85 (75.9%) chose studying medicine to be their own choice, with service to humanity 56 (50%) being the main reason, followed by monetary 20 (18.8%) reasons. Generally 78 (69.6%) of the responders preferred the PBL curriculum over the traditional one. Most of the students 42 (37.5%) planned to undergo the residency program in Saudi Arabia, with general surgery being the specialty preferred by 33 (29.5%) students. CONCLUSION: The findings in our study suggest that altruism is the most common influencing factor that led students joining a medical college Elsevier 2022-09-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9486612/ /pubmed/36147114 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.104410 Text en © 2022 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Cohort Study Ikram, Nadeem Mousa, Ahmed Hafez Alshanberi, Asim Muhammad Mohammad, Salwa Agha Radwan, Hanin Awais, Muhammad Majeed, Mudassar Choice of medicine program: A single-institution study |
title | Choice of medicine program: A single-institution study |
title_full | Choice of medicine program: A single-institution study |
title_fullStr | Choice of medicine program: A single-institution study |
title_full_unstemmed | Choice of medicine program: A single-institution study |
title_short | Choice of medicine program: A single-institution study |
title_sort | choice of medicine program: a single-institution study |
topic | Cohort Study |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9486612/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36147114 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.104410 |
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