جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "انتخاب رشته تخصصی" در نشریات گروه "پزشکی"

The assessment of the interest of medical students in continuing their studies in specialized fields and the factors affecting it can play a strategic role in macro educational planning. Therefore, the present study aimed to assess the level of academic interest and the factors affecting the choice of specialty in medical students of Babol University of Medical Sciences.

In this applied cross-sectional study, the study population included incoming medical students from 2009 to 2017 in clinical preparation, stager, and internship. The participants were selected by the convening sampling, and the research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire. Data were collected and entered into SPSS software (version 22) and analyzed by related tests at a significance level of p-value ≤ 0.05.

The mean age of students was 23.02±1.65 years, and124 (61/4%) students were female. Moreover, 96.6% of students wanted to continue their studies in residency. Social status in 142 (70.3%) students and lack of free time in 97 (48%) students, respectively, were the most important positive and negative influential factors in the selection of medicine as the field of study. Three fields of cardiology  (n=9; 145.1%), radiology 84 (n=84; 41.6%) and ophthalmology  (n=82; 40.6%) were the first three priorities. No statistically significant difference was observed in gender in any of the specialties, except urology (P=0.008).

Interest, social status, income, years of study, and hospital attendance status were the factors affecting the choice of residency among medical students.

Assessment of dental residents motivation to study speciality course could be effective in training committed dentists as productive forces in public health. The aim of this study was to evaluate the motivation in dental residents specialty choice in Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical sciences in 2014- 2015.
This descriptive cross-sectional study was performed on all dental residents in Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical sciences (75 persons)by census. Data was gathered by a researcher made questionnaire including 22 questions in which content validity is confirmed by experts and construct validity is evaluated by factor analysis as well,also,its reliability Confirmed through Cronbach's alpha. Analyzing data have been done using descriptive statistics and independent t- test and ANOVA through SPSS.
A total of 75 dental residents (31 males, 43 females) with a mean age of 30.8±3.7 completed the questionnaire findings show that the most important motivations for choosing the dental specialty fields were: the acquisition of knowledge and the ability to do the job better (4.28±0.70), social status and income (3.87±0.75), to help people and promote health (3.31±0.93) and the ease and lack of job stress (3.13±1.13). results showed a significant differences between factors affecting the specialty choices and marital status.also, factors of ease and lack of job stress were important in single residents (p =0.028).
considering the effective factors in dental residents speciality choice and dentists role in promoting and improvement of public health, it is suggested authorities in dentistry schools focus on the importance of theses factors in determining appropriate strategies for promotion of community health .