When and why do medical students drop out of extracurricular longitudinal general practice tracks? A cross-sectional study from two German medical faculties

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To explore when and why undergraduate medical students drop out of longitudinal extracurricular general practice (GP) tracks and to describe their future career plans.

Design

Cross-sectional online survey and descriptive analysis of routine data.

Setting

GP tracks at two German medical faculties, data collection took place between September 2020 and April 2021.

Participants

Of 111 students who had taken part in one of the two GP tracks and dropped out prematurely, 101 were contactable via email. Overall, the response rate was 72.3% with 73 completed questionnaires and 75.3% of the participants were female.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Reasons for leaving the GP track (closed and free-text answers), attitudes towards a career

SUBMITTER: Nafziger M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9756222 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature