Medical student career choice: a qualitative study of fourth-year medical students at Memorial University, Newfoundland.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Specialty career choice is a critical decision for medical students, and research has examined factors influencing particular specialties or assessed it from a demographic perspective. The purpose of this study was to explore and describe influential factors in students' decision-making, irrespective of their particular specialty in a Canadian medical school.

Methods

Study participants were recruited from fourth-year medical classes at the Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2003, 2006, 2007 and 2008. Sixteen focus groups (n = 70) were led by a nonfaculty facilitator to uncover factors affecting medical student career choice. The analysis was guided by principles of grounded theory methodology. The focus group transcripts were sequentially coded based on recurr

SUBMITTER: Pianosi K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4933642 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature