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Our data suggest that hospital orientation and medical lifestyle are the most influential factors when choosing EM as a future specialty.
Given these findings, what about the intention to choose psychiatry as a future specialty?
In both assessments, more than 80% of the students refused or almost refused to consider psychiatry as a future specialty.
The last two responses represented almost a fifth of all responses, indicating a substantial degree of confusion and resignation among students when considering a future specialty [ 8].
This study aims to evaluate the medical students' perception of psychiatry before and after a clerkship, and the impact on their intention to pursue psychiatry as a future specialty option.
Among students that had already frequented an ICU, 81.9% did so exclusively as part of extracurricular activities; the main reason for seeking this exposure was interest in ICM as a future specialty (37.7%, n = 26).
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Regardless of the specialty chosen, a significant number of residents developed an interest in their future specialty during medical school (38%41%41%), but their final decision to apply occurred during residency training (73 – 89%) (Table 1).
Different studies have shown that, although there is a margin for variation in the selection of the future specialty, the preferred choice at the moment of entering medical school is a key predictive factor.
However, unlike respondents with an otolaryngology preference, in respondents who considered general/family medicine as their future specialty, the z-scores of all 5 factors were less than 50.
Doctors in training were categorized according to their future specialty.
No difference by gender, time in practice (i.e. Foundation Year One or Two), current specialty, intended future specialty or place of medical training were identified.
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