Admission of medical university students to medical activities

Abstract

Objective: to identify trends students' attitudes to medical activities prior to completing their studies at a medical university. Material and methods. A longitudinal study of the opinion of medical university students was conducted. By the method of questioning with the help of author's questionnaires (two types of questionnaires with 15 questions, adapted to the tasks of the research stages). At the 1st stage, students of those training courses were surveyed, after which it is possible to obtain admission to medical activities as specialists with secondary medical or secondary pharmaceutical education (n=634); at the 2nd stage — students of those training courses who had the opportunity to work on the basis of the received admission (n=586). Results. There was a significant increase in students' awareness of the possibility to implement medical practice as nursing professionals having obtained an admission (from 59.3% to 84.3% of respondents). There were revealed the dominant motives to receive an admission: to get working experience for further professional practice or for residency admission (52.2% and 56.1% out of 100 respondents at the first and second stages of the survey respectively), to apply/work out the acquired competencies in practice in real conditions (42.3% and 34.3% out of 100 respondents respectively). The refore some undergraduates were not prone to obtain an admission and that attitude was explained by the difficulty of combining studies and work (60.1 % out of 100 respondents). Conclusion. Along with raising awareness of students and obtaining admission of 35.5% of students, the proportion of students who do not want to get admission to medical activities classes before completing their studies is increasing.