Specialty Preferences among Students at Yamaguchi University School of Medicine

• OKANO Misaki

  Yamaguchi University School of Medicine

• FUKUDA Yoshiharu

  Department of Community Health and Medicine, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine

• ABE Masaaki

  Department of Community Health and Medicine, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine

• NAKAMURA Hiroshi

  Department of Community Health and Medicine, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine

• SEGAWA Makoto

  Department of Community Health and Medicine, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 山口大学医学部医学科学生の希望診療科に関する調査
• ヤマグチ ダイガク イガクブ イガッカ ガクセイ ノ キボウ シンリョウカ ニ カンスル チョウサ
• ヤマグチ ダイガク イガクブ イガクカ ガクセイ ノ キボウ シンリョウカ ニ カンスル チョウサ

Abstract

This study was conducted to examine specialty preferences of students attending Yamaguchi University School of Medicine. In total, 447 of 600 medical students of 2010 fiscal year responded to a self-administrated questionnaire about the probability of selecting each specialty in the future. Internal medicine was the most commonly preferred specialty, with 48. 4% of students answering "very high" or "high" probability. General surgery (23. 5%), pediatrics (23. 3%), general medicine (20. 7%) and emergency medicine (17. 2%) followed. There was a remarkable gender difference; general surgery, neurosurgery, orthopedics and emergency medicine tended to be preferred by males, while pediatrics, anesthesiology, gynecology and obstetrics, and dermatology were generally preferred by females. There was no significant difference in the specialty preferences between 2008 and 2010 surveys. The preference for internal medicine increased with advancing student years. The students of quotas related to rural and community medicine preferred pediatrics and gynecology and obstetrics more compared to other students. The results of this study should be considered for effective strategies to address specialty maldistribution of physicians.

Journal

• Yamaguchi Medical Journal

  Yamaguchi Medical Journal 60 (5), 179-184, 2011

  Yamaguchi University Medical Association

Keywords

• 医学生
• 進路希望
• 診療科
• 医師偏在
• 質問紙調査

Details

• CRID: 1390001204834815744
• NII Article ID: 130004475996
• NII Article ID: 10030041654
• NII Book ID: AN00243156
• DOI: 10.2342/ymj.60.179
• ISSN: 18804462
• ISSN: 05131731
• NDL BIB ID: 023173916
• Web Site: https://petit.lib.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp/19376
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I023173916
• Web Site: https://search.jamas.or.jp/link/ui/2012083941
• Text Lang: ja
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