Survey on employment intention of medical students in China / 中华全科医师杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To survey the employment intention of medical students of five-year program in China.Methods A self-administered questionnaire survey on the employment intention was conducted among grade-5 medical students of 5-year program in 8 medical schools from January to June 2017,395 participants (161 males and 234 females) were selected by stratified random cluster sampling method.Results The survey showed that 57.65％ (226/392) respondents would return hometown after graduation as their first choice,20.66％ (81/392) preferred to work in large cities,only 0.76％ (3/292) chose the Western and rural areas;20.05％ (78/389) responders were willing to be a general practitioner working at the community health center,56.55％ (220/389) did not decide,while 23.40％ (91/389) did not want to be general practitioner.Students from rural areas vs.from urban areas (24.30％ vs.15.08％),whose parents with lower educational level vs.higher educational level (30.62％ vs.25.71％),from medical school in Western regions vs.in Eastern regions (28.65％ vs.11.68％) were more willing to choose general practice(P＜0.05).Students who had clerkship or rotation of general medicine vs.who had not more like the specialty of general practice (27.63％ vs.15.66％,P＜0.05),but there was no significant difference in the employment intention to be a general practitioner (19.93％ vs.20.45％,P＞0.05).Students who knew grassroots employment policies were more willing to be general practitioners (25.48％ vs.13.02％,P＜0.05).Conclusion The survey shows that the employment intention to be a general practitioner is stronger than before among medical students.But it is still need to take necessary measures to attract more medical graduates to work as general practitioners in grass-roots communities.