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摘要
Introduction
In several countries, the number of candidates to enter Psychiatry is diminishing. in Mexico, the kind of factors that influence the preference for a medical specialty and the way the selection tendencies change across the years of the medical career is riot well known. In this study we analyzed the specialty preferences in a representative sample of students from different years of Medicine School at the National Autonomous University of Mexica (UNAM).
Material and methods
Descriptive-cross-sectional study. Specialty preferences were-assessed in students enrolled in the 2009-2010 school year Of the Medicine School through a questionnaire designed expressly far this research. Data were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively.
Results
A total of 2737 students participated. Most of the students in 2634) had already considered a specialty Preferred specialties were General surgery (n=403, 14.72%), followed by Internal medicine (n=382, 13.96%) and Pediatrcs (n=261, 9.54%). On the other hand, Radiology (n=314, 11.47%), Pediatrics (n=280, 10.23%) and Family medicine (n=263, 9.61%), were all specialties that students, would not choose. For Psychiatry, there was a greater tendency Only among first year Students to see it as a Choice of specialty compared with men (n=114, 11.53%), the percentage of women (n=259; 14.81%) who considered Psychiatry as an option Of medical residency was higher.
Discussion
We could see that Psychiatry is neither the Most preferred nor the most rejected specialty among medical students., Unfortunately misconceptions still prevail around it and they do not favor its selection as a potential option of residency. It would be necessary to, strengthen The knowledge about mental health and psychiatry, and to have the teachers promoting it in order to change the trends of selection.
- 出版日期2012-12
