Ashraf Ilhaam, Chan Wendy W T, Prasad Ramakrishna, Kubendra Mohan, Hemavathy D, Prasad Shailendra
Fourth Phase MBBS, Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
IDEX Fellow and Intern at Aarogya Seva, St. Philomena's Hospital, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2018 Jan-Feb;7(1):205-209. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_72_17.
Currently, family medicine is not taught as a part of the undergraduate medical curriculum in India. In this context, the perceptions and attitudes of Indian medical students regarding family medicine as a career choice were studied.
This study aims to study the perceptions and attitudes prevalent among Indian medical students regarding family medicine as a career choice and discuss its future implications.
Cross-sectional survey study design.
We conducted a cross-sectional survey of undergraduate medical (MBBS) students attending the 2016 medical student conference DEMEDCON at Sri Devaraj Urs Medical College in Kolar, Karnataka, India. Besides demographics, the survey included questions pertaining to awareness, exposure, and interest in family medicine in India. We also asked an open-ended question regarding the respondent's perception of the future of family medicine in India.
Simple statistics such as mean and frequency (%) were calculated. Given the small sample size, no formal tests for statistical significance were performed.
Responses were collected from 45 students between the ages of 18-24 from 6 medical colleges across Karnataka and Puducherry. The majority (64%) of respondents were in their 3 or 4 year of medical college. 98% of respondents expressed a desire to learn more about family medicine as a specialty, and 82% expressed a need to introduce it as a subject in medical college. However, only 58% were aware of the Medical Council of India accredited status of family medicine in India.
There exists a significant lack of awareness and inadequate exposure among Indian medical students toward family medicine. Nonetheless, there is widespread optimism and a desire to learn more about the subject. Increased awareness and avenues for exposure to family medicine in the formal undergraduate medical curriculum is the need of the hour.
目前，印度的本科医学课程中没有将家庭医学作为教学内容的一部分。在此背景下，对印度医学生将家庭医学作为职业选择的认知和态度进行了研究。
本研究旨在了解印度医学生中普遍存在的将家庭医学作为职业选择的认知和态度，并探讨其未来影响。
横断面调查研究设计。
我们对参加2016年在印度卡纳塔克邦科拉尔市斯利德瓦拉杰·乌尔斯医学院举行的医学生会议DEMEDCON的本科医学（MBBS）学生进行了横断面调查。除了人口统计学信息外，调查还包括与印度家庭医学的认知、接触和兴趣相关的问题。我们还问了一个关于受访者对印度家庭医学未来看法的开放式问题。
计算了均值和频率（%）等简单统计数据。鉴于样本量较小，未进行正式的统计显著性检验。
从卡纳塔克邦和本地治里的6所医学院的45名年龄在18 - 24岁之间的学生中收集了回复。大多数（64%）受访者处于医学院学习的第三年或第四年。98%的受访者表示希望更多地了解家庭医学专业，82%的受访者表示需要在医学院将其作为一门学科引入。然而，只有58%的人知道印度医学委员会认可家庭医学在印度的地位。
印度医学生对家庭医学的认知严重不足，接触机会也不够。尽管如此，人们普遍持乐观态度，并渴望更多地了解这门学科。当务之急是提高对家庭医学的认知，并在正规本科医学课程中增加接触家庭医学的途径。
