Central Board for Specialty training for Elderly Care Medicine in the Netherlands (SOON), Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Center for Research and Development of Education, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Med Teach. 2020 Nov;42(11):1298-1300. doi: 10.1080/0142159X.2020.1804056. Epub 2020 Aug 17.
Medical students switch career preferences during medical school and likely distinguish themselves in stability of preference over time. The purpose of our study was to gain insight in career paths stability of medical students.
The authors conducted a longitudinal, four sessions interview study with medical students with three intervals over a three and a half-year period. From all 24 participants the first and second career preferences were documented, analyzed and we calculated a stability score, to interpret career preference stability.
Three different pathways were found: a 'winding road' with low stability (0-7 points); a 'country road' with medium stability (8-14 points); and a 'highway' with high stability (15-22 points).
This study provides a longitudinal view of how the stability of career preference, including the first and second career preference, evolves over time. While we only studied a small sample, the characterization may hold when larger samples are studied.
医学生在医学院期间会改变职业偏好，并可能随着时间的推移在偏好稳定性方面表现出明显的差异。我们的研究目的是深入了解医学生职业道路的稳定性。
作者对 24 名医学生进行了一项纵向、四阶段的访谈研究，时间跨度为三年半，共进行了三个时间间隔。记录、分析了所有 24 名参与者的第一和第二职业偏好，并计算了稳定性得分，以解释职业偏好的稳定性。
发现了三种不同的途径：稳定性低的“曲折道路”（0-7 分）；稳定性中等的“乡村道路”（8-14 分）；以及稳定性高的“高速公路”（15-22 分）。
本研究提供了一个关于职业偏好稳定性（包括第一和第二职业偏好）如何随时间演变的纵向观点。虽然我们只研究了一个小样本，但当研究更大的样本时，这种特征可能仍然存在。
