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PURPOSE: To produce competent undergraduate-level medical doctors for rural township health centers (THCs), the Chinese government mandated that medical colleges in Central and Western China recruit rural-oriented, tuition-waived medical students (RTMSs) starting in 2010. This study aimed to identify and assess factors that influence the choice to work in rural township health centers among both RTMSs and other students from five medical universities in Guangxi, China. METHODS: An internet-based self-administered questionnaire survey was conducted with medical students in Guangxi province. Multinomial logistic regression was used to identify factors related to the attitudes toward work in a rural township health center. RESULTS: Among 4,669 medical students, 1,523 (33%) had a positive attitude and 2,574 (55%) had a neutral attitude toward working in THCs. Demographic characteristics, personal job concerns, and knowledge of THCs were associated with the choice of a career in THCs. The factors related to a positive attitude included the following: three-year program, a rural-oriented medical program, being male, an expectation of working in a county or township, a focus on medical career development, some perceived difficulty of getting a job, having family support, sufficient knowledge of THCs, optimism toward THC development, seeking lower working pressure, and a lower expected monthly salary. CONCLUSION: Male students in a three-year program or a rural-oriented tuition-waived medical education program were more likely to work in THCs. Selecting medical students through interviews to identify their family support and intentions to work in THCs would increase recruitment and retention. Establishing favorable policies and financial incentives to improve living conditions and the social status of rural physicians is necessary.
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Humans , Male , Asian People , Career Choice , China , Dronabinol , Education, Medical , Intention , Logistic Models , Motivation , Rural Health Services , Salaries and Fringe Benefits , Social Conditions , Students, Medical , Child HealthABSTRACT
Constructing regional high-leveled teaching and research university is an important way for provincial university development.During a long history of running practice based on local conditions,regional advantages and local specialties,Guangxi Medical University has continually carried forward its inheritance and steadily innovated itself,expanded the connotation of regional and highleveled university,explored its way to be regional and high leveled teaching-research medical university by marking clear educational goals with top-ranking educational ideas,developed its own characteristics based on local conditions,emphasized on talent-cultivation with the times,enhanced its core competences of disciplinary construction,promoted medicine technology innovations by scientific researches,formed a teaching team with excellent quality by cultivating and introducing intelligent teaching staff thus explored a development path of regional high-leveled teaching and research university.
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OBJECTIVE:A method was established for determining the content of estriol in estriol suppositories.METHO_ DS:Using three wavelength spectrophotometry.RESULTS:The detecting wavelengths were296nm,281nm and276nm;the average recovery rate of estriol was99.2%(RSD=0.5,n=6).CONCLUSION:The method is accurate,quick and suitable for detecting estriol in intermediate material of estriol suppositories.