Students' approaches to medical school choice: relationship with students' characteristics and motivation.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The aim was to examine main reasons for students' medical school choice and their relationship with students' characteristics and motivation during the students' medical study.

Methods

In this multisite cross-sectional study, all Year-1 and Year-4 students who had participated in a selection procedure in one of the three Dutch medical schools included in the study were invited to complete an online survey comprising personal data, their main reason for medical school choice and standard, validated questionnaires to measure their strength of motivation (Strength of Motivation for Medical School-Revised) and autonomous and controlled type of motivation (Academic Self-regulation Questionnaire). Four hundred seventy-eight students participated. We performed frequency

SUBMITTER: Wouters A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5511747 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature