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Third-year medical students’ choice of future careers
Authors:
Rathi Mahendran ,
National University Hospital, SG
About Rathi
Department of Psychological Medicine
Department of Psychological Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
Edimansyah Abidin,
Institute of Mental Health/Woodbridge Hospital, SG
Birit Broekman,
National University Health System, SG
Peh Lai Huat,
Changi General Hospital, SG
Kua Ee Heok
National University of Singapore, SG
Abstract
We determined future career choices of 222 third year medical students and found that 94.6% wanted to be clinicians. No one considered a full-time career in research or the clinician-researcher track. This highlights the need to facilitate medical students’ decision-making on their career choice which would have a significant impact on the development of healthcare and its services.
How to Cite:
Mahendran, R., Abidin, E., Broekman, B., Huat, P.L. and Heok, K.E., 2012. Third-year medical students’ choice of future careers. South-East Asian Journal of Medical Education, 6(2), pp.43–44. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/seajme.v6i2.168
Published on
29 Dec 2012.
Peer Reviewed
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