ArticleInternational journal of medical education2014
The characteristics of general practice and the attractiveness of working as a GP: medical students' views.
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- General practice prestige: understanding medical students' perceptions - a repeated cross-sectional study.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Preparing future general practitioners: the effects of individual, familial, and institutional characteristics.BMC medical education · 2023Article
- Students' motivation in choosing general practice for their career pathway: a middle-income country report, Indonesia.International journal of medical education · 2022Review
- Working in preventive medicine or not? Flawed perceptions decrease chance of retaining students for the profession.Human resources for health · 2019Article
- Preventive medicine as a first- or second-choice course: a cross-sectional survey into students' motivational differences and implications for information provision.BMC research notes · 2017Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe aim of the study was to investigate medical students' views on general practice based on their experiences in training, and to find out whether there were certain views associated with the intention to become a GP.
methodsA questionnaire, based on our earlier studies about GP working behaviour, was handed out to medical students in terms 1, 3, 5, 7, 10 and 11 of undergraduate studies in Gothenburg, Sweden. The analysis comprised statistical descriptions and comparisons.
resultsThe students regarded general practice positively. They found the work environment good, the GP's awareness of patients' living conditions necessary, and that GP work requires medical breadth. The status of the GP in the medical profession was not considered high. One-fourth of the students strongly agreed with the possibility of a future as a GP. This attitude was statistically associated with support to the statements that general practice offers a good work environment and should be a major component in undergraduate training. Students with a negative attitude to working as GPs were also negative to having a major component of general practice in undergraduate training.
conclusionsMedical students with a positive stated attitude towards becoming GPs support changes in undergraduate training to include more general practice. The risk of increasing a negative attitude should be considered when changes are discussed.
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