Development of a career questionnaire for medical undergraduates using Mokken scale analysis.
BMC Med Educ
; 22(1): 286, 2022 Apr 15.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1793953
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Individual-centred career questionnaires are important for understanding the motivations of medical students. This study aimed to collect validity evidence of a questionnaire to measure the career choice of medical undergraduates.METHODS:
A cross-sectional survey was sent to third-year undergraduate students at a Chinese university-affiliated hospital. The questionnaire was formed using items that were selected after a systematic literature review. Item reduction was conducted using Mokken scale analysis, followed by reliability and validity testing, which described the validity evidence of the content, response process and internal structure.RESULTS:
The preliminary 20-item questionnaire was returned by 213 undergraduate students (response rate 86.59%). To construct a monotone homogeneity model, 6 items were removed after testing for unidimensionality, local independence, and latent monotonicity according to the sequence. The final questionnaire included 14 items in two subscales a 10-item 'career advantage' subscale and a 4-item 'career disadvantage' subscale. The questionnaire was judged to be acceptably reliable (Molenaar-Sijtsmamethod:
0.87 and 0.75, Cronbach's alpha 0.87 and 0.74) and to have good construct validity (χ2/df 1.748, normed fit index > 0.9, comparative fit index > 0.9, root mean square error of approximation 0.05-0.08). Male and female undergraduates had different responses regarding their salary, subspecialty, career prospects, and ability to serve their relatives. Male undergraduates might be more willing to accept on-call positions and have subspecialties with greater likelihoods of patient-physician conflict.CONCLUSION:
We used Mokken scale analysis to develop and collect evidence of the validity of a 14-item questionnaire regarding career preferences among Chinese medical undergraduate students. This short and simple questionnaire may provide a suitable tool for exploring insights regarding the motivations of Chinese medical students.Keywords
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Students, Medical
Type of study:
Observational study
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Randomized controlled trials
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Reviews
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Systematic review/Meta Analysis
Limits:
Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
English
Journal:
BMC Med Educ
Journal subject:
Education
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S12909-022-03340-8
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