Factors influencing medical students' decision to pursue a career in obstetrics and gynaecology.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The career intentions of medical students can exert influence on service provision and medical staffing in the health services. It is vital for a specialty's development and sustainability that it has a constant stream of trainees into it annually. An appreciation of how a specialty is viewed by medical students can be used as an opportunity for early intervention in order to improve perception of the specialty and reduce future workforce problems, such as retention and attrition within obstetrics and gynaecology (O&G). We aimed to analyse positive and negative factors of the specialty of O&G as perceived by medical students in order to gain insight into changes that need to be made to improve recruitment and retention into the specialty.

Methods

A 70-item struc

SUBMITTER: Ni hEalaithe C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10697605 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature