Preliminary study of the relationship between career choice motivation and understanding of professionalism in newly enrolled medical students in China: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Early professionalism education for first-year students is important for generating sound knowledge and attitudes towards medical professionalism. Of the many factors affecting professionalism and professional identity formation in medical students, career choice motivation is an understudied one. This study aimed to explore the relationship between the career choice motivations of first-year medical students and their understanding of professionalism.

Settings and participants

A cross-sectional survey of 940 first-year clinical medicine students was conducted at China Medical University in September 2017 to explore students' motivation to study medicine and its relationship with students' understanding of professionalism. Demographics, career choice motivation an

SUBMITTER: Cui X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7903090 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature