| Title |
A survey of factors influencing career preference in new-entrant and exiting medical students from four UK medical schools
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medical Education, July 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6920-14-151 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jennifer A Cleland, Peter W Johnston, Micheal Anthony, Nadir Khan, Neil W Scott |
| Abstract |
Workforce planning is a central issue for service provision and has consequences for medical education. Much work has been examined the career intentions, career preferences and career destinations of UK medical graduates but there is little published about medical students career intentions. How soon do medical students formulate careers intentions? How much do these intentions and preferences change during medical school? If they do change, what are the determining factors? Our aim was to compare medical students' career preferences upon entry into and exit from undergraduate medical degree programmes. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 11 | 48% |
| Canada | 5 | 22% |
| United States | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 6 | 26% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 10 | 43% |
| Members of the public | 7 | 30% |
| Scientists | 5 | 22% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 2 | 1% |
| Bahamas | 1 | <1% |
| Ireland | 1 | <1% |
| Ghana | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 186 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 36 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 27 | 14% |
| Researcher | 20 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 17 | 9% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 16 | 8% |
| Other | 42 | 22% |
| Unknown | 36 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 100 | 52% |
| Social Sciences | 9 | 5% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 9 | 5% |
| Psychology | 8 | 4% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 7 | 4% |
| Other | 22 | 11% |
| Unknown | 39 | 20% |
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