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<p>The health professionals might be driven by different reasons in choosing their future medical specialty like passion, personal interest, balance with the family life, financial expectation, prestige etc. Our study aimed to explore the dominant preferences of the medical students in choosing their medical specialty in relation to their personal profile. We analysed the options of 3424 students from three cohorts the biggest public medical university of Romania. We found that most of the medical student are very career oriented, with low interest in having a family or children during their student life, most are income-dependent by others, and driven by passion/interest in choosing their future specialty, but with low interest for family medicine. Our data could be relevant for the policy makers for tailoring the long-term human resources polices adapted to the students’ values, with the aim to assure an equitable coverage with medical services all over the country.</p>
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The health professionals might be driven by different reasons in choosing their future medical specialty like passion, personal interest, balance with the family life, financial expectation, prestige etc. Our study aimed to explore the dominant preferences of the medical students in choosing their medical specialty in relation to their personal profile. We analysed the options of 3424 students from three cohorts the biggest public medical university of Romania. We found that most of the medical student are very career oriented, with low interest in having a family or children during their student life, most are income-dependent by others, and driven by passion/interest in choosing their future specialty, but with low interest for family medicine. Our data could be relevant for the policy makers for tailoring the long-term human resources polices adapted to the students’ values, with the aim to assure an equitable coverage with medical services all over the country.

Motivation and Preferences of Human Resources in the Medical Field – Premises for Further Policies in the Medical Sector in Romania

“Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy

Acta Medica Transilvanica

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The health professionals might be driven by different reasons in choosing their future medical specialty like passion, personal interest, balance with the...

Motivation and Preferences of Human Resources in the Medical Field – Premises for Further Policies in the Medical Sector in Romania

Published Online: Aug 05, 2021

Page range: 1 - 4

Received: Apr 20, 2021

Accepted: Jun 04, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amtsb-2021-0021

Keywords
discrimination, Romanian physicians, demographics

© 2021 Mirela Cristina Georgescu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Motivation and Preferences of Human Resources in the Medical Field – Premises for Further Policies in the Medical Sector in Romania

Published Online: Aug 05, 2021

Page range: 1 - 4

Received: Apr 20, 2021

Accepted: Jun 04, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amtsb-2021-0021

Keywordsdiscrimination, Romanian physicians, demographics

© 2021 Mirela Cristina Georgescu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
discrimination, Romanian physicians, demographics