Matching of advanced undergraduate medical students' competence profiles with the required competence profiles of their specialty of choice for postgraduate training.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Matching between undergraduate students and their chosen specialty has implications for their personal job satisfaction and performance as well as societies' needs regarding health care quality. Knowledge regarding student-specialty fit can help improve students' decisions and detect potential deficiencies in specific competences. In this study, we compare self-assessed competence profiles of medical students close to graduation with the competence profiles of their specialty of choice for postgraduate training.

Methods

Self-assessed competence profiles were collected with the modified requirement-tracking (R-Track) questionnaire from 197 final-year medical students close to graduation in 2022. To determine student-specialty fit, difference scores between students

SUBMITTER: Jebram L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10485971 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature