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Factors influencing medical students’ choice of emergency medicine as a career specialty—a descriptive study of Saudi medical students

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Emergency Medicine, March 2018
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Title
Factors influencing medical students’ choice of emergency medicine as a career specialty—a descriptive study of Saudi medical students
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International Journal of Emergency Medicine, March 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12245-018-0174-y
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Hadeel Alkhaneen, Faisal Alhusain, Khalid Alshehri, Nawfal Al Jerian

Abstract

Choosing a medical specialty is a poorly understood process. Although studies conducted around the world have attempted to identify the factors that affect medical students' choice of specialty, data is scarce on the factors that influence the choice of specialty of Saudi Arabian medical students, in particular those planning a career in emergency medicine (EM). In this study, we investigated whether Saudi medical students choosing EM are influenced by different factors to those choosing other specialties. A cross-sectional survey was conducted at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAUHS), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The questionnaire distributed among all undergraduate and postgraduate medical students of both sexes in the second and third phases (57% were males and 43% were females). A total of 436 students answered the questionnaire, a response rate of 53.4%. EM group was most influenced by hospital orientation and lifestyle and least influenced by social orientation and prestige provided by their specialty. Unlike controllable lifestyle (CL) group and primary care (PC) group, EM reported lesser influence of social orientation on their career choice. When compared with students primarily interested in the surgical subspecialties (SS), EM group were less likely to report prestige as an important influence. Moreover, students interested in SS reported a leaser influence of medical lifestyle in comparison to EM group. When compared with CL group, EM group reported more interest in medical lifestyle. We found that students primarily interested in EM had different values and career expectations to other specialty groups. The trends in specialty choice should be appraised to meet future needs.

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Unknown 41 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 7 17%
Student > Master 5 12%
Researcher 2 5%
Student > Postgraduate 2 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 2%
Other 4 10%
Unknown 20 49%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 14 34%
Arts and Humanities 1 2%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 2%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 2%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 21 51%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 June 2019.
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#6,497,607
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#192
of 632 outputs
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#107,247
of 337,637 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Emergency Medicine
#9
of 22 outputs
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