Al-Hemiary Nesif, Al-Nuaimi Ahmed Sameer, Al-Saffar Hilal, Randall Ian
Section of Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq.
Department of Family and Community Health, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq.
J Med Educ Curric Dev. 2017 Aug 21;4:2382120517726997. doi: 10.1177/2382120517726997. eCollection 2017 Jan-Dec.
The motivations behind why people choose to study medicine in Iraqi medical schools are unknown. Such information could help school pupils to make more informed career decisions and assist medical schools in enhancing the student selection process.
To investigate why people choose to study medicine in Iraq.
The first-year students admitted on the academic year 2015-2016 to Baghdad College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, were invited to complete a structured questionnaire, which was administered through the college electronic education portal. The data were analyzed using IBM SPSS version 21 software.
A total of 152 (50% response rate) students responded. Women constituted 69.1% of respondents. Most students (61.8%) had made their choice by themselves without family pressure. The most frequent reasons that affected this choice were "humanitarian reasons and a wish to provide help to others" as well as "childhood dream," "positive community appraisal of doctors," and "ready availability of work for physicians." About three-quarters (73.6%) of the students made some inquiry about medical school before making their choice, and the people asked were most frequently a medical student or a doctor. Information provided by the consulted parties was regarded as satisfactory by 64.2% of the surveyed students, had a positive value in 47.2%, and affected their decision in 34.9%. The highest proportion (42.2%) of the study sample was thinking about studying medicine since primary school. In addition, students with personal preference made their choice at a significantly younger age.
Reasons to apply for medical schools in Iraq are similar to those in many countries. Most of the students who inquired about studying medicine had not contacted the medical school itself.
人们选择在伊拉克医学院校学习医学背后的动机尚不清楚。此类信息有助于在校学生做出更明智的职业决策，并协助医学院校改进学生选拔流程。
调查人们在伊拉克选择学习医学的原因。
邀请2015 - 2016学年被巴格达大学巴格达医学院录取的一年级学生填写一份结构化问卷，该问卷通过学院电子教育门户发放。使用IBM SPSS 21版软件对数据进行分析。
共有152名学生回复（回复率为50%）。女性占回复者的69.1%。大多数学生（61.8%）是自主做出选择，没有受到家庭压力。影响这一选择的最常见原因是“人道主义原因及希望帮助他人”以及“儿时梦想”“社会对医生的正面评价”和“医生工作机会多”。约四分之三（73.6%）的学生在做出选择前对医学院校进行了一些咨询，咨询对象最常见的是医学生或医生。64.2%的被调查学生认为咨询对象提供的信息令人满意，47.2%的学生认为这些信息有积极价值，34.9%的学生认为这些信息影响了他们的决定。研究样本中比例最高（42.2%）的学生从小学就开始考虑学习医学。此外，有个人偏好的学生做出选择的年龄显著更小。
申请伊拉克医学院校的原因与许多国家类似。大多数咨询过医学学习的学生并未联系医学院校本身。
