Abstract
Introduction: Medical education requires a long duration of education and training. Medical stream is a diverse field; an assortment of clinical specialties of number of areas; clinical, psychological, surgical, field work, public health to name a few, with varied clinical environment, duties, and contact with patients.
 Methodology: Study was conducted in ten Medical colleges from three northern states of India (Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Chandigarh). 677 final year medical students were included in the study. The study was designed as a cross-sectional self- administered questionnaire-based survey. Data were analyzed based on Frequencies, percentage, weighted scores and Chi square test. The findings were tabulated and represented with the help of suitable diagrammatic and graphical presentation.
 Results: revealed that around two-third were males (67.50%), majority were under 25 years, Hindus, from urban areas, joint families and 6.79% were married. Majority belonged to HIG. Statistically significant association of some demographic Characteristics (area of residence, gender, marital status and type of family) in selection of Internal medicine as specialty choice, whereas the association was not significant for age, religion and income group.
Highlights
Medical education requires a long duration of education and training
It is very important to find the impact of demographic characteristics on career choice of medical students
Study was conducted in ten Medical colleges from three northern states of India (Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Chandigarh)
Summary
Medical education requires a long duration of education and training. Medical stream is a diverse field; an assortment of clinical specialties of number of areas; clinical, psychological, surgical, field work, public health to name a few, with varied clinical environment, duties, and contact with patients. It takes five to seven years of learning to earn MBBS degree, Medicine undergraduate students had to study a wide range of basic science subjects, medical subjects and intensive training with exposure to varied clinical environment, duties, and contact with patients. Medical careers begin undifferentiated into fully-differentiated specialists whose practice is almost entirely confined to one specialized branch of medicine. Medical stream is a diverse field; an assortment of clinical specialties of number of areas; clinical, psychological, surgical, field work, public health to name a few, with varied clinical environment, duties, and contact with patients. As far as students’ efforts are concerned, medical education system in Indian scenario is demanding, delivering too much content in a short span of time with more traditional approach of teaching; more class room teacher centered interaction, based on examination and laboratory oriented. Kumar and Dhaliwal (2011) reported that the most preferred career choices were medicine and surgery, followed by orthopaedics, and least choosen was community medicine
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