Denigration of general practice as a career choice: The students' perspective. A qualitative study.

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Emmet CarlinKristen Davies

Abstract

General practice in the UK and other parts of the world is facing a recruitment crisis with insufficient numbers of medical students selecting it as a career choice. Denigration of general practice has been postulated as one of the contributing factors. To explore comments about general practice as a career made by clinical teachers from the medical student's perspective, and in doing so to further understand the current difficulties of recruiting into general practice. A qualitative, explorative study of three focus groups of medical students from two medical schools in northern England. A semi-structured interview format was utilised. The following four questions were posed to the participants about choosing general practice as a career: had they heard negative comments? Had they heard positive comments? Do they think comments influence student career decisions or is it a problem? Could they suggest any solutions to the issue? Results were analysed using thematic analysis. Students reported hearing both positive and negative comments about general practice as a career choice. They perceived the comments to potentially influence student career choice. Three underlying themes emerged: the individual (personal characteristics of...Continue Reading

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