Gender Associated with the Intention to Choose a Medical Specialty in Medical Students: A Cross-Sectional Study in 11 Countries in Latin America.

Autor: Ng-Sueng LF; Escuela de Medicina, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, Perú; Sociedad Científica Estudiantes de Medicina UPC, Lima, Perú, Vargas-Matos I; Escuela de Medicina, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, Perú, Mayta-Tristán P; Escuela de Medicina, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, Perú, Pereyra-Elías R; Escuela de Medicina, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, Perú, Montenegro-Idrogo JJ; Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú, Inga-Berrospi F; Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú, Ancalli F; Universidad Nacional Jorge Basadre Grohmann, Tacna, Perú, Bonilla-Escobar F; Instituto Cisalva, Escuela de Salud Pública, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia., Diaz-Velez C; Universidad de San Martín de Porres, Chiclayo, Perú, Gutierrez-Quezada E; Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit, Tepic, Nayarit, México., Gomez-Alhach J; Universidad de San Martín de Cali, Cali, Colombia., Muñoz-Medina CE; Universidad del Oriente Núcleo Bolivar, Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela., Sanchez-Pozo A; Universidad Nuestra Señora de La Paz, La Paz, Bolivia., Vidal M; Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2016 Aug 12; Vol. 11 (8), pp. e0161000. Date of Electronic Publication: 2016 Aug 12 (Print Publication: 2016).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0161000
Abstrakt: Introduction: The selection of a medical specialty has been associated with multiple factors, such as personal preferences, academic exposure, motivational factors and sociodemographic factors, such as gender. The number of women in the medical field has increased in recent years. In Latin America, we have not found any studies that explore this relationship.
Objective: To determine whether there is an association between gender and the intention to choose a medical specialty in medical students from 11 countries in Latin America.
Methods: Secondary analysis of the Collaborative Working Group for the Research of Human Resources for Health (Red-LIRHUS) data; a multi-country project of students in their first year and fifth year of study, from 63 medical schools in 11 Latin American countries. All students who referred intention to choose a certain medical specialty were considered as participants.
Results: Of the 11073 surveyed students, 9235 indicated the name of a specific specialty. The specialties chosen most often in the fifth year were General Surgery (13.0%), Pediatrics (11.0%), Internal Medicine (10.3%) and Obstetrics/Gynecology (9.0%). For women, the top choices were Pediatrics (15.8%), Obstetrics/Gynecology (11.0%), Cardiology (8.7%), General Surgery (8.6%), and Oncology (6.4%). In the adjusted analysis, the female gender was associated with the choice of Obstetrics/Gynecology (RP: 2.75; IC95%: 2.24-3.39); Pediatric Surgery (RP: 2.19; IC95%: 1.19-4.00), Dermatology (RP: 1.91; IC95%:1.24-2.93), Pediatrics (RP: 1.83; IC95%: 1.56-2.17), and Oncology (RP: 1.37; IC95%: 1.10-1.71).
Conclusions: There is an association between the female gender and the intention to choose Obstetrics/Gynecology, Pediatrics, Pediatric Surgery, Dermatology, and Oncology. We recommend conducting studies that consider other factors that can influence the choice of a medical specialty.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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