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KMID : 0384320030240050444
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Korean Journal of Family Medicine
2003 Volume.24 No. 5 p.444 ~ p.450
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The Effect of Family Medicine Clerkship on the Preference for Family Medicine as a Career Choice in Third-year Medical Students
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Park Hoon-Ki
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Abstract
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Background: Family medicine clerkship gives undergraduate medical students the opportunity to integrate knowledge and skills taught in class. Impression from clerkship experience and preceptor´s role model allow medical students to consider family medicine as a career choice. This study investigated the effect of family medicine clerkship on the preference for family medicine as a career choice in third-year medical students.
Methods: From July through December of 1995, one hundred third-year medical students attended family medicine clerkship at Hanyang University Medical School (HUMS). They were divided into 20 groups of 4∼6 students. Seven half-days of clerkship teaching were provided in a private family medicine clinic and 2 half-days, in an university hospital family medicine clinic. The score of preference for family medicine was measured using the 10 cm visual analogue scale.
Results: The subjects´ mean age was 24.1 years. Eighty eighty percent of students were males. The mean score of preference for family medicine as a career choice were 3.2 for pre-clerkship, 6.9 for post-clerkship, and 7.0 at the end of third-year semester exam, respectively. The group preference score was different among groups. Sex, age, hometown, parents´ occupation, inhabitation type, religion, and lecture exam score were not related to the preference score. Eleven percent of students hoped to specialize in family medicine in the future. The students´ main conception of family medicine were ´primary care´, and ´comprehensive care´, in descending order.
Conclusion: Third-year family medicine clinical clerkship improved the students´ preference for family medicine as a career choice. A continuous program needs to be developed to render positive effect into the final stage of resident selection. (J Korean Acad Fam Med 2003;24: 444-450)
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KEYWORD
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career choice, clinical clerkship, family practice, education, medical, undergraduate
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