Kushwaha Anu, Kadel Anuj Raj
Department of Emergency Medicine and General Practice, Kathmandu Medical College Teaching Hospital Sinamangal, Kathmandu,Nepal.
Kathmandu Medical College Teaching Hospital, Duwakot, Bhaktapur, Nepal.
JNMA J Nepal Med Assoc. 2019 Sep-Oct;57(219):361-363. doi: 10.31729/jnma.4634.
Family medicine is a relatively overlooked specialty in Nepalese medical education. It is unclear how many interns are actually interested in Family medicine as a career and how many non-medical individuals are aware of its existence. The aim of this study is to assess information, expectation and perception among interns regarding family medicine and its choice as a career.
This is a descriptive-cross sectional study carried out in Kathmandu Medical College Teaching Hospital from July 2018 to December 2018. Whole sampling was done. All interns of Kathmandu Medical College Teaching Hospital posted in different departments during the time period was the inclusion criteria. Chronic absentees was the exclusion criteria. Factor like age, sex, their residency of choice, and whether they consider family medicine as a potential career were considered. Data was entered in with Statistical Package for Social Services version 16 and necessary calculations were done.
Thirty three interns preferred internal medicine as their career of choice, 20 preferred surgery while only three preferred in family medicine. Eighty eight interns, including the three who had family medicine as their career of choice, said that they could consider family medicine as a potential career. Eighty eight out of the 100 interns in the study mentioned that their family had knowledge that a specialty called family medicine existed.
Despite being the career of choice of only a few, majority considered family medicine as a potential career for them. And the knowledge about existence of family medicine was high among families of interns.
在尼泊尔医学教育中，家庭医学是一个相对被忽视的专业。目前尚不清楚有多少实习生真正对家庭医学作为一种职业感兴趣，以及有多少非医学专业人士了解其存在。本研究的目的是评估实习生对家庭医学及其作为职业选择的信息、期望和认知。
这是一项描述性横断面研究，于2018年7月至2018年12月在加德满都医学院教学医院进行。采用整群抽样。纳入标准为在此期间在加德满都医学院教学医院不同科室实习的所有实习生。排除长期缺勤者。考虑的因素包括年龄、性别、他们选择的住院医师培训方向，以及他们是否将家庭医学视为潜在职业。数据录入社会科学统计软件包第16版并进行必要的计算。
33名实习生将内科作为他们的职业选择，20名选择外科，而只有3名选择家庭医学。88名实习生，包括3名将家庭医学作为职业选择的实习生，表示他们可以将家庭医学视为潜在职业。研究中的100名实习生中有88名提到他们的家人知道有家庭医学这个专业存在。
尽管只有少数人将其作为职业选择，但大多数人认为家庭医学是他们的潜在职业。实习生的家人对家庭医学存在的知晓率很高。
