Barbur Laura, Shuman Cindy, Sanderson Michael W, Grauer Gregory F
College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA.
J Vet Med Educ. 2011 Fall;38(3):278-87. doi: 10.3138/jvme.38.3.278.
The purpose of the present study was (1) to determine if students from one veterinary school who participated in a mentoring/employment program with clinical faculty were more likely to pursue internship training than their peers and (2) to determine factors via survey that were influential to veterinary interns in making their decision to pursue post-graduate clinical training. Our hypothesis was that a mentoring relationship with clinical faculty was an important influence on the decision to participate in an internship. From 2006 to 2010, graduating students who participated in a mentoring/employment program with a clinical faculty member were 6.3 times more likely than non-participating students to pursue an internship. The majority of the participating students (90%) were initially hired/mentored as first- or second-year veterinary students. In the survey, interns ranked clinical faculty as having a greater influence than basic science faculty, private practice veterinarians, or house officers on their decision to pursue an internship; 82.8% reported that clinical faculty were most responsible for encouraging them to apply for an internship. Employment by their veterinary teaching hospital (41.5%) or directly by clinical faculty (26.2%) was commonly reported. Most interns (37%) decided to pursue an internship during their fourth year of veterinary school, 29.2% decided during their first year, and 15.3% decided in their second year. These results suggest that clinical faculty play a key role in a student's decision to pursue an internship and that it might be valuable to inform students about internships early in the veterinary curriculum.
（1）确定一所兽医学院中参与临床教师指导/就业计划的学生比其同龄人更有可能参加实习培训；（2）通过调查确定对兽医实习生决定参加研究生临床培训有影响的因素。我们的假设是与临床教师的指导关系对参加实习的决定有重要影响。2006年至2010年，参与临床教师指导/就业计划的应届毕业生参加实习的可能性是非参与学生的6.3倍。大多数参与计划的学生（90%）在大一或大二时就开始接受临床教师的聘用/指导。在调查中，实习生认为临床教师对他们参加实习的决定比基础科学教师、私人执业兽医或住院医生的影响更大；82.8%的人表示临床教师最负责鼓励他们申请实习。常见的报告是受雇于他们的兽医教学医院（41.5%）或直接受临床教师聘用（26.2%）。大多数实习生（37%）在兽医学院四年级时决定参加实习，29.2%在一年级时决定，15.3%在二年级时决定。这些结果表明临床教师在学生决定参加实习中起关键作用，并且在兽医课程早期就向学生介绍实习情况可能是有价值的。
