Relationships between self-efficacy beliefs and personal factors in final-year medical students

Self-efficacy contributes to medial students' preparedness for clinical practice and can be predicted by several personal factors. Students should learn and reflect about these factors and need to be supported in increasing their self-efficacy and its self-assessment towards their transition to postgraduate training. Construction of a specific instrument for self-efficacy assessment utilizing the insight provided by the findings is proposed as a next step.