Factors influencing medical students' choice of specialization: A gender based systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Students' choice of medical specialties has evolved throughout year, with a growing interest in quality of life and in technological specialties. We investigated the repartition of such choices in the world and its influencing factors with a focus on the gender's influence, for helping policy-makers to deal with medical shortage and territorial to specialty disconnect.

Methods

A systematic search was conducted on MEDLINE and Scopus from January 2010 to January 2020. Data extraction and analysis followed JBI and PRISMA recommendations. The selected articles had to focus on medical students, detail their choice of specialty, and look for factors influencing their choice. Articles were excluded if they only assessed the attractiveness of a specialty, or evaluated a p

SUBMITTER: Levaillant M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7588859 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature