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Abstract

Background:

Distribution of available manpower in healthcare sector is an important issue to maintain the optimum health status of the community. The study of aspirations of the undergraduate medical students might help to know the future availability of the medical fraternity in various fields and to understand the necessities in the medical education field in Rajasthan State.

Methods:

A cross-sectional study was conducted among 500 undergraduate medical students of JLN Medical College, Ajmer (Rajasthan) in November 2015, using a self-administered questionnaire.

Results:

There were 65% males and 35% females. About 41.88% students were from rural and 58.12% were from urban background. Average age of students was 21.23 years (±1.89). Majority (87.92%) of MBBS students aspired to do postgraduation. Only 14.17% were interested in a government job in rural and 28.54% in urban areas. Very few (2.7%) students were interested in the research field. Approximately, 8% students wanted to study abroad. Overall specialty preference was internal medicine (31.45%), surgery (15.95%), and Pediatrics (12.07%). Branch preference in females was the same. Nonclinical branches were not the preferred choice among our study participants. The most influencing factors for undergraduate students to choose specialty were job satisfaction and job security (>90%). Unnecessary burden of complicated clerical work instead of clinical job (80.83%) was an important influencing factor for less interest in a government job.

Conclusions:

Our study shows majority of students desiring to do postgraduation in clinical specialties and most of them want to join urban, socially respectful clinically oriented hospitals instead of a primary health center at the rural area or a nonclinical research oriented specialty. It might lead to shortage of doctors in non- and para-clinical branches and also in rural areas of Rajasthan in future.

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