Personality and interest in general practice: results from an online survey among medical students
Our study reveals that students' personality traits predict their interest in General Practice and their intention to choose it as a specialty. Personality assessments can be integrated into counselling services to help students better understand their traits. Our findings highlight the great potential of considering personality in career counselling during medical education or even the extent of admission criteria to medical school by personality-related criteria.
Authors
- Anne Simmenroth (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3521-1225)
- Maike Krauthausen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8864-3403)
- Martin J. Koch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6165-0785)
- Tobias Leutritz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9871-4073)
- Pamina Eva Hagen
- Sarah König (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4866-9881)
Institutions
- Universitätsklinikum Würzburg (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Primary Care
- Published
- 2024-12-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-024-02682-0
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Medical Education and Admissions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.09