What does a good lifestyle mean to you? Perspectives of 4th-year U.S. medical students with military service obligations in 2009.
Teach Learn Med
; 24(4): 292-7, 2012.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-23035994
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
A specialties' lifestyle is known to be important for specialty selection, but how medical students define this concept is unknown.PURPOSE:
The aim of this article is to determine how 4th-year medical students perceive lifestyle of specialties.METHODS:
All 4th-year U.S. medical students graduating in 2009 with a military service obligation were invited to participate in an electronic survey. Responses to an open-ended question, "When someone says 'That specialty has a good lifestyle,' what does that mean to you?" were classified into themes by a consensus of the authors and then compared to the students' selected specialty.RESULTS:
Response rate for the questionnaire was 46% (369 of 797). Four themes describing lifestyle emerged "schedule control" (67% of students), "off time" (53%), "financial aspects" (48%), and "work life" (26%).CONCLUSIONS:
Medical students' definition of a "good lifestyle" includes four themes, which should be used in future research of the lifestyle factor of specialty selection.
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Eixos temáticos:
Capacitacao_em_gestao_de_ciencia
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Percepção
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Qualidade de Vida
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Estudantes de Medicina
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Estilo de Vida
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Medicina
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Medicina Militar
Tipo de estudo:
Observational_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2012
Tipo de documento:
Article