Office of Admissions and Student Affairs, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0552, USA.
Med Educ Online. 2009 Feb 19;14:4. doi: 10.3885/meo.2009.Res00284.
Students' selection of a specialty is an important decision in their career as a physician. While distinguishing primary care physicians from non-primary care specialists has served a purpose for how medicine is practiced and managed, considering alternative ways of grouping specialties is appropriate when exploring specialty decisions.
This study explored how early specialty preferences correspond to eventual specialty choice using the person-oriented versus technique-oriented taxonomy.
Participants were 349 students who completed a career plan survey during the first semester of medical school and later graduated.
Chi-square analysis showed a statistically significant difference between students' early preference for a person-oriented or technique-oriented specialty and the specialty they chose for their residency.
Students with an early preference for person-oriented specialties were more likely to choose a person-oriented specialty, whereas students with an early preference for technique-oriented specialties were less likely to enter a technique-oriented specialty.
学生选择专业是其作为医生职业的一个重要决策。虽然将初级保健医生与非初级保健专家区分开来对医学的实践和管理有一定的作用,但在探索专业决策时,考虑采用替代方式来对专业进行分组是恰当的。
本研究使用面向人与面向技术的分类法,探讨了早期专业偏好与最终专业选择之间的对应关系。
参与者为 349 名学生,他们在医学院的第一学期完成了职业规划调查,后来毕业。
卡方分析显示,学生早期对面向人或面向技术的专业的偏好与他们选择的住院医师专业之间存在统计学上的显著差异。
早期倾向于选择面向人的专业的学生更有可能选择面向人的专业,而早期倾向于选择面向技术的专业的学生则不太可能进入面向技术的专业。