Factors promoting willingness to practice medicine in rural regions and awareness of rural regions in the university’s catchment area – cross-sectional survey among medical students in central Germany

Autor: Brütting, Christine, Herget, Sabine, Bauch, Felix, Nafziger, Melanie, Klingenberg, Anja, Deutsch, Tobias, Frese, Thomas
Jazyk: German<br />English
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: GMS Journal for Medical Education, Vol 40, Iss 4, p Doc52 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2366-5017
DOI: 10.3205/zma001634
Popis: Aim: Many universities offer rural medical internships for medical students. The present survey was designed to show how rural medical work is perceived by students, whether these perceptions are associated with origin and previous experience, and how well medical students know rural regions in the vicinity of their university. In addition, students were asked how to support and inspire medical students to later work in a rural region.Methods: This cross-sectional study was based on an anonymous online survey of medical students at the Universities of Halle-Wittenberg and Leipzig. The evaluations included descriptive statistics, statistical group comparisons, and qualitative content analysis of free text answers.Results: A total of 882 students took part in the survey. Students who had grown up in a rural region or had lived there for a longer time (71.7% of the respondents) rated the work-life balance better (p
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