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Career aspirations of new intake students in a government-owned medical school in Lagos, Nigeria.

Authors: Modupe , Olumuyiwa , ASHIPA Temitope , ALAKIJA Wole , Esther Oluwakemi Oluwole

Publication Type: Journal article

Journal: Babcock University Medical Journal

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Abstract

Objectives

This study was carried out in order to identify; the career aspirations of new intake students in a government-owned school in Lagos Nigeria, the factors influencing their choice of a specialty and reasons behind the choice of a medical career and medical school.

Methods:

The study was a cross-sectional descriptive study that made use of self- administered structured questionnaires to elicit career aspirations of the total population of new intake medical students in 200 level of study. Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 19 was used for data analysis. Ethical clearance was obtained from the Health research and Ethics Committee of Lagos State University Teaching Hospital.

Results:

There was a 95.6% response rate (65/68). Over half of the respondents were in the 20 -29 year age group (53.8%), with a similar proportion of the students being female. A majority of respondents (82.1%) chose to study medicine on account of personal interest or love or the profession, and would be willing to continue medical practice after graduation (83.1%). Surgery was the preferred specialty of the largest proportion of respondents (47.3%). The most common motive for choice of specialty was interest in, or love for the specialty (89.1%).

Conclusion

Desire for specialization in medicine was evident at the early stages of the training programme. Counselling about medical specialties should therefore commence very early to provide guidance for new intakes.

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Modupe,R. Olumuyiwa,O. ASHIPA,T. ALAKIJA,W. Esther,O.O . (2017). Career aspirations of new intake students in a government-owned medical school in Lagos, Nigeria., 2 (), 1-1.

Modupe,R. Olumuyiwa,O. ASHIPA,T. ALAKIJA,W. Esther,O.O . "Career aspirations of new intake students in a government-owned medical school in Lagos, Nigeria." 2, no (), (2017): 1-1.

Modupe,R. and Olumuyiwa,O. and ASHIPA,T. and ALAKIJA,W. and Esther,O.O and . (2017). Career aspirations of new intake students in a government-owned medical school in Lagos, Nigeria., 2 (), pp1-1.

ModupeR, OlumuyiwaO, ASHIPAT, ALAKIJAW, EstherOO, . Career aspirations of new intake students in a government-owned medical school in Lagos, Nigeria.. 2017, 2 ():1-1.

Modupe,Rebekah , Olumuyiwa,Odusanya , ASHIPA,Temitope , ALAKIJA,Wole , and Esther,Oluwakemi Oluwole . "Career aspirations of new intake students in a government-owned medical school in Lagos, Nigeria.", 2 . (2017) : 1-1.

M.Rebekah O.Odusanya A.Temitope A.Wole & E.Oluwakemi Oluwole , "Career aspirations of new intake students in a government-owned medical school in Lagos, Nigeria." vol.2, no., pp. 1-1, 2017.

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