In Turkiye, very few internal medicine research assistants consider becoming nephrologists in the future.

ABSTRACT: The global population of patients with kidney disease is steadily increasing; however, the number of nephrologists available to treat this patient group is concurrently declining. Although the underlying causes of this trend have been investigated in various countries, no such study has been conducted in Türkiye. Therefore, in this survey study, we aimed to examine the perspectives of internal medicine research assistants in our country regarding the nephrology subspecialty. This cross-sectional survey targeted all internal medicine research assistants working in 80 university and training/research hospitals across seven geographical regions of Türkiye. Data were collected through an online questionnaire developed by the researchers, created using Google Forms (Google LLC, Mountain View, C

SUBMITTER: Sensoy NNO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12749589 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature