FEATURES OF PROFESSIONAL DIRECTION OF SENIOR STUDENTS AT MEDICAL UNIVERSITIES

Galaktionova Nadezhda Igorevna, Candidate of medical sciences, assistant, sub-department of public health and health care management (with a course of postgraduate studies), Astrakhan State Medical University (121 Bakinskaya street, Astrakhan, Russia), nbolotnikova@mail.ru
Bolotnikov Igor' Yur'evich, Doctor of medical sciences, director of the Territorial Disaster Medicine Centre of Astrakhan region (16b Tatischeva street, Astrakhan, Russia), medkatastr@mail.ru

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Background. The research deals with career choosing by secondary school leav-ers and students of medical higher education institutions. It analyzes social characteristics of senior medical students.
Materials and methods. The research was conducted in the form of a question-naire among 200 respondents. They were fourth- and sixth-year students of a gen-eral medicine department.
Results. The results of the research showed gender differences among students (not only in quantity but also in age): male students were fewer than female, and the first group was a year older than the second group. Besides, there were some gender differences in motivation to enter a medical higher education institution: male students pointed out the family tradition as their main factor of motivation, while female students stated that they had entered the university following their parents’ advice. At the same time the choice of medical concentration of both sexes was alike - all the students wanted to become specialized doctors in future: ultrasonographers, endoscopists, ENT specialists, eye specialists, etc. All the students planned to work in city hospitals after graduation.
Conclusion. Among senior students almost half of them (50,9 %) were from As-trakhan region villages, towns and villages of Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia. More than a half of senior students (58,2 %) were female. 54,5 % of the graduates tended to become specialized doctors, 17,3 % wanted to be obstetricians-gynaecologists, 16,5 % planned to become surgeons, 11 % wanted to be physicians and 1 % chose the profession of general practitioner.

students, age, anonymous questionnaire, motivation to enter the medical university, studying

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