Gameraddin Moawia, Al-Sultan Kamal, Salih Suliman, Gareeballah Awadia, Hasaneen Mohamed, Alomaim Wijdan, Omer Awatif
Department of Diagnostic Radiologic Technology, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Taibah University, Al-Madinah, Saudi Arabia.
Radiology and Medical Imaging Department, Fatima College of Health Sciences, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Adv Med Educ Pract. 2022 Oct 21;13:1351-1358. doi: 10.2147/AMEP.S377344. eCollection 2022.
It is necessary to determine what motivates students to pursue a particular specialty of their choosing to maintain a balance of medical practitioners from various disciplines.
The study aims to assess factors influencing undergraduate students of Applied Medical Sciences in choosing a specialty or discipline.
This cross-sectional study was conducted among first-year students of the faculty of applied medical sciences at Taibah University. One hundred and twenty-five participants were enrolled in the study. The students were asked to respond and complete the designed 9-item questionnaire. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (BM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 23.0, Armonk, NY: IBM Corp.) was used to analyze the data. A comparison between departments of the faculty was carried out.
125 participants were satisfied with their current faculty or discipline. They stated that medicine was the first choice (43.2%), followed by clinical nutrition (11.2%), dentistry (8%), diagnostic radiology (7.2%), and clinical laboratory (5.6%). The most important factors that affect students' choice of discipline were helping patients and the community (32.8%), personal desire (30.4%), personal desire and helping patients (22.4%), and job opportunity and prestige (9.5%), with gender variations. Family enforcement and finances were less frequent factors affecting students' specialty preferences.
The human medicine specialization was the first choice for most female and male undergraduate students who entered the faculty of applied medical sciences. Furthermore, the most influencing factor affecting students' choices was helping patients and the community.
有必要确定是什么促使学生选择特定的专业，以维持各学科医生数量的平衡。
本研究旨在评估影响应用医学科学专业本科生选择专业或学科的因素。
本横断面研究在泰巴赫大学应用医学科学学院的一年级学生中进行。125名参与者被纳入研究。要求学生回答并完成设计好的9项问卷。使用社会科学统计软件包（BM SPSS Statistics for Windows，版本23.0，纽约州阿蒙克：IBM公司）分析数据。对该学院各系进行了比较。
125名参与者对他们目前所在的系或学科感到满意。他们表示医学是首选（43.2%），其次是临床营养学（11.2%）、牙科学（8%）、放射诊断学（7.2%）和临床检验学（5.6%）。影响学生选择学科的最重要因素是帮助患者和社区（32.8%）、个人意愿（30.4%）、个人意愿和帮助患者（22.4%）以及工作机会和声望（9.5%），存在性别差异。家庭强制和经济因素是影响学生专业偏好的较少见因素。
对于进入应用医学科学学院的大多数本科男女学生来说，人类医学专业是首选。此外，影响学生选择的最主要因素是帮助患者和社区。
