6th year medical students' future specialty preferences: A cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Studying career preferences can help in designing and improving health service systems. Determining the preferred specialty and understanding the compulsion affecting specialty choice will provide clues to influence such choice in the future to shift the balance of specialties among practitioners. The current study aimed to determine medical students' preferable specialty choices and the factors influencing their choices and their attitude towards postgraduate medical education in Jordan and abroad.

Materials and methods

The descriptive cross-sectional study design included 6th-year medical students in medical faculties in Jordan. An online questionnaire was created on Google Forms and posted on platforms accessible by medical students at level six. Numbers and pe

SUBMITTER: Al-Beitawi SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8141496 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature