Assessment of satisfaction about future job satisfaction among medical students

Assessment of satisfaction about future job satisfaction among medical students Shahmohammadi F1, Moosavi F2, Golestan B3 1 Assistant professor, Gynecologist Obstetrician, Islamic Azad University, Tehran Medical Branch, Tehran, Iran. 2 Assistant professor, Specialist of Community Medicine, Islamic Azad University, Tehran Medical Branch, Tehran, Iran. 3 Assistant professor, Biostatistician, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. This research aimed at studying the factors affecting medical students' satisfaction with their future job. In a descriptive, cross-sectional research, 250 medical interns [94 males and 156 females] at the Islamic Azad University in Tehran were studied using an attitude questionnaire with demographic features. They included all medical interns studying medicine in the academic year 1384-1385 [2005-2006] in Qods clinic and Amir Al-Momenin [A], Javadiyeh, Bou-Ali, Javaheri, Torfeh, Kashani, Lavasani, and Naft hospitals. The obtained data were analyzed using t-test, chi-square, and ANOVA. The results of the study showed that mothers' educational level was the only variable having a significant statistical relationship with the students job satisfaction score [p > 0.01]. However, no significant correlation was found between students job satisfaction and factors like sex, marital status, the presence of a physician in the family, fathers' educational level, and willingness to practice medicine after graduation. Dissatisfaction with their economic status, the future of medical practice, working hours, and obligatory services in deprived areas are among the factors which diminish medical students' motivation to practice medicine in the future

survey of youth knowledge attitude and behavior toward ecstasy use in Northestern districts of Tehran

This study evaluated the knowledge and attitude of Tehran northwestern young population toward ecstasy use and its consequences. In this descriptive, analytical-crossectional study, 400 young [247males, 153 females] persons residing in northwestern districts of Tehran were assessed by a demographic and knowledge, attitude and behavior questionnaire. They were selected via the multi-stage random sampling. The data were analyzed through the descriptive statistic methods and x [2]. 41% of samples had good knowledge, 50%had moderate knowledge and 9% had low knowledge. 32%saples had good attitude, 44% had moderate attitude and 24% had bad attitude 26%of respondents have reported that they have used the ecstasy tablets. One important finding is that 31%of ecstasy user are also addicted to other kinds of narcotics. 44.9%of males and 35.3%of females were moderately aware of the dangerous outcomes of the ecstasy use.25.9%of males and 20.3%femles regarded the ecstasy use a bad and dangerous act. In this study there was a significant relationship between attitude and gender [p=0.035].also there was a significant relationship between ecstasy use and gender [p<0.001] and a notable relationship between ecstasy use and education [p=0.008] A considerable percent of respondents was not aware of the dangerous outcomes of the ecstasy and not show the expected negative attitude toward this drug and a vast percentage of them had used the drug