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Investigación en educación médica
versión On-line ISSN 2007-5057
Resumen
TORRES SERNA, Camilo; RAMIREZ QUIROGA, María Paula; OSPINA CRUZ, Juliana y DIAZ GIRALDO, Valentina. Expectations for the professional practice of medicine of students that start university studies. Investigación educ. médica [online]. 2017, vol.6, n.23, pp.190-197. ISSN 2007-5057. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.riem.2016.11.004.
Introduction
Practicing any profession requires having enough motivation to address problems that present themselves every day, but the practice of medicine requires extreme motivation, and it also includes hard working days filled with frequent frustrations dealing with disease and death. It has been observed that doctors now want to specialise in one area of medicine, for many reasons, including scientific growth, better working conditions, more predictable working hours, better economic conditions, etc.
Objective
To examine what first semester Medical students of a private university in Cali, Colombia would like their future professional practice to be.
Method
Cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted using a questionnaire to the freshmen of the Faculty of Medicine at the Universidad Libre of Cali (Colombia). They were asked to choose between seven options of what they were planning for their professional practice once they graduated as medical doctors.
Results
The results showed that 83% of surveyed students expected to specialise, and only 2.6% would remain as general practitioners.
Conclusions
The results of the study and a review of similar studies lead to the conclusion that medical students do not want to practice general medicine, regardless of location, and only have the expectation of becoming specialists; therefore medical schools should focus their curriculum in order for their students to achieve that expectation.
Palabras llave : Medical curriculum; Medical degree; Medical students; Professional expectations.