Medical Students' Perspectives on Family Planning and Impact on Specialty Choice.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Physicians are known to delay childbearing compared with nonphysicians and to experience higher rates of age-related pregnancy complications. Delay of childbearing is more pronounced in surgical specialties, and family planning and building goals may influence specialty choice.

Objective

To assess medical students' perspectives on the development of family planning goals and the timing of family building within a medical career to elucidate how these perceptions impact their choice of specialty.

Design, setting, and participants

This qualitative study included fourth-year medical students at the University of Toronto Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and was conducted between May and August 2021. Participants were purposively sampled to

SUBMITTER: Dason ES 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10719828 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature