Psychiatry as a career choice among medical students: a cross-sectional study examining school-related and non-school factors.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:Given the low recruitment to psychiatry worldwide, the current study aimed to examine how premedical and intramedical school factors, perception of career aspects, attitudes towards psychiatry, stigma towards mental illness and personality traits may affect the likelihood of psychiatry as a career choice. DESIGN:Cross-sectional online study. PARTICIPANTS:502 medical students from two public medical institutions in Singapore. METHODS:We critically examined existing literature for factors identified to influence psychiatry as a career choice and explored their effects in a group of medical students in Singapore. To avoid overloading the regression model, this analysis only included variables shown to have significant association (p<0.05) with the outcome variable from the initial

SUBMITTER: Seow LSE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6104786 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature