Anticipated decrease in surgeons: does orthopedic internship affect medical students career choice?
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2020
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Aim: The aim of this study is to determine medical students’ career choices and to identify the effect of both demographic factors and the orthopedics residency education program on medical students’ career choices. Material and Method: This study was performed on a total of 154 medical students (92 females and 62 males; mean age 23.7±2.8) who attended Orthopedic internship program between 2018 and 2019 academic years. The students were subjected to a questionnaire twice on the first and last days of their internship program, which investigated distribution of selection of final year medical students’ career choices and factors that may play role on this selection. Results: Eighty-three (53.9%) students had changed their preferences and 72 (46.8%) had changed the order of preferences after Orthopedic internship program. The increase in the number of students who chose Orthopedics (p<0.001) and who placed Orthopedics in first order in their list of preferences (p=0.039) was statistically significant after the Orthopedic internship program. There was no significant difference between the female and male students in terms of placing surgical branches first in their list of preferences before (p=0.955) and after Orthopedic internship program (p=0.182). It was found that male students chose Orthopedics significantly more than females both before (p<0.001) and after (p<0.001) the internship. Conclusion: We demonstrated that early and active recruitment in surgery and operating theatre with positive support of faculty, residents and even operating room staff may increase interest in orthopedic surgery both for male and female medical students.
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Sağlık Bilimleri ve Hizmetleri, Cerrahi, Ortopedi
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Journal of health sciences and medicine (Online)
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