Omar Abdousamad Said, Alchalabi Hasan, Gordon Amy
General Medicine, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, Newport, GBR.
Surgery, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, Newport, GBR.
Cureus. 2025 Jun 14;17(6):e85994. doi: 10.7759/cureus.85994. eCollection 2025 Jun.
Existing reviews examine medical students' specialty choices and physician‑parent burnout separately; none link parental pandemic experiences to children's career aspirations. To map and synthesise all empirical evidence on how the COVID‑19 pandemic, particularly parental occupational stress/burnout, has influenced the intentions of children (five to 25 years) of physicians and other healthcare workers (HCWs) to pursue medical careers. We followed the JBI scoping review methodology and PRISMA-ScR guidelines. Databases searched included MEDLINE, Embase, PubMed, ProQuest, and Google Scholar. Screening and data extraction processes involved two reviewers, and quality appraisal was performed using the AXIS checklist. Only one study was eligible, involving 53 adolescents from India. Results indicated nearly equal proportions of participants shifted towards and away from medical careers (15% and 13%, respectively), with the majority (72%) showing no change. There is a substantial gap in the literature regarding this specific impact of the pandemic. Further research, including multi-country and longitudinal studies, is needed.
现有综述分别研究了医学生的专业选择和医生父母的职业倦怠；没有一项研究将父母在疫情中的经历与子女的职业抱负联系起来。旨在梳理和综合所有实证证据，以了解新冠疫情，尤其是父母的职业压力/倦怠，如何影响医生和其他医护人员（HCWs）5至25岁子女从事医学职业的意愿。我们遵循了循证卫生保健国际协作网（JBI）的范围综述方法和系统评价与Meta分析扩展版首选报告项目（PRISMA-ScR）指南。检索的数据库包括MEDLINE、Embase、PubMed、ProQuest和谷歌学术。筛选和数据提取过程由两名评审员负责，并使用AXIS清单进行质量评估。只有一项研究符合条件，该研究涉及来自印度的53名青少年。结果表明，转向和背离医学职业的参与者比例几乎相等（分别为15%和13%），大多数（72%）没有变化。关于疫情的这一具体影响，文献中存在很大差距。需要进一步开展研究，包括多国研究和纵向研究。
