Swedish medical students' expectations of their future life

dc.creator	Saima Diderichsen
dc.creator	Jenny Andersson
dc.creator	Eva E. Johansson
dc.creator	Petra Verdonk
dc.creator	Antoine Lagro-Janssen
dc.creator	Katarina Hamberg
dc.date	2011-11-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:21:54Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:21:54Z
dc.identifier	10.5116/ijme.4ec5.92b8
dc.identifier	2042-6372
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/8db38d78f30242dc97032ef9fe975a1b
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/29209
dc.description	Objectives: To investigate future life expectations among male and female medical students in their first and final year. Methods: The study was cross-sectional and conducted at a Swedish medical school. Out of 600 invited students, 507 (85 answered an open-ended question about their future life, 298 (59 first-year students and 209 (41 last-year students. Women constituted 60of the respondents. A mixed model design was applied; qualitative content analysis was utilized to create statistically comparable themes and categories. Results: Students' written answers were coded, categorized and clustered into four themes: "Work", "Family", "Leisure" and "Quality of personal life". Almost all students included aspects of work in their answers. Female students were more detailed than male ones in their family concerns. Almost a third of all students reflected on a future work-life balance, but considerations regarding quality of personal life and leisure were more common among last-year students. Conclusions: Today's medical students expect more of life than work, especially those standing on the doorstep of working life. They intend to balance work not only with a family but also with leisure activities. Our results reflect work attitudes that challenge the health care system for more adaptive working conditions. We suggest that discussions about work-life balance should be included in medical curricula.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	IJME
dc.relation	http://www.ijme.net/archive/2/students-expectations-of-their-future-life.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2042-6372
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	International Journal of Medical Education, Vol 2, Pp 140-146 (2011)
dc.subject	medical students
dc.subject	gender
dc.subject	future expectations
dc.subject	physician’s role
dc.subject	work-life balance
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Swedish medical students' expectations of their future life
dc.type	article