Factors affecting the specialty choice among medical students of Saudi Arabia; an exploratory study
The right selection of a suitable future career is pivotal and strongly associated with future job success and satisfaction for a medical graduate. The study has provided insight to the regulatory bodies about student's fears and factors affecting them to choose or avoid certain specialties to formulate a future resource management plan accordingly.
Authors
- Areeb Rehman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9739-6272)
- Safaa Alsanosi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6453-754X)
- Abdul Rehman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6182-0115)
- Sumera Nisar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5073-0189)
- Nadeem Muhammad Ikram
- Mariam AbouTouk
Institutions
- Umm al-Qura University (SA)
- University of Jeddah (SA)
- Batterjee Medical College
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Medical Education
- Published
- 2024-12-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-024-06408-9
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.79
Funders
- University of Dundee