Surgical experiences of final-year undergraduates and the impact on their career aspiration stratified by sex/gender.

IF 1.5 Q2 EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES GMS Journal for Medical Education Pub Date : 2024-06-17 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI:10.3205/zma001683
Angelika Homberg, Elisabeth Narciß, Udo Obertacke, Katrin Schüttpelz-Brauns
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Objectives: Surgical undergraduate training takes place in a male-dominated work environment that struggles with recruitment problems. Experiences of cultural and sex/gender-specific barriers of women in surgery have been reported worldwide. Overall, the experiences that students have in coping with the emotional impact of surgery as a profession are thought to be crucial to their subsequent career choices. We investigated whether students' self-reported experiences differed by sex/gender in terms of frequency and content, and whether they were related to their career aspirations.

Methods: In Germany, the final year represents the last part of the undergraduate medical study program. At the Mannheim Medical Faculty, a 12-week surgical training is mandatory. After completing their surgical training, the students were asked about their experiences and their later career aspirations. These experiences were analysed using quantitative content analysis. The relationship between the quality of experience and career aspirations as well as sex/gender differences were statistically measured.

Results: In the 475 questionnaires analysed (response rate 52%), the number of positive and negative mentions does not differ by sex/gender. However, male students feel more actively involved and female students feel poorly briefed and think that supervisors are less interested in their training. A significant influence on career aspirations was found in the performance category for female and male students, and in the supervision category for female students.

Conclusion: The positive experiences that students gain while performing surgical activities have an impact on their subsequent career choices. In particular, a good settling-in period and encouragement to actively participate could help to attract more women to surgery.

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按性别分列的本科毕业年级学生的外科手术经历及其对职业理想的影响。
目的:外科本科生的培训是在男性占主导地位的工作环境中进行的,因此很难解决招聘问题。世界各地都有关于女性在外科工作中遇到的文化和性别障碍的报道。总体而言,学生在应对外科这一职业所带来的情感影响方面的经历被认为对其日后的职业选择至关重要。我们调查了学生自我报告的经历在频率和内容方面是否存在性别差异,以及这些经历是否与他们的职业理想有关:在德国,最后一年是医学本科学习的最后阶段。在曼海姆医学院,为期 12 周的外科培训是必修课。在完成外科培训后,学生们被问及他们的经历和日后的职业理想。我们使用定量内容分析法对这些经历进行了分析。对经历质量与职业抱负之间的关系以及性别差异进行了统计:在分析的 475 份调查问卷中(回复率为 52%),正面和负面提及的数量没有性别差异。然而,男生认为自己更积极地参与其中,而女生则认为没有得到很好的情况介绍,并认为导师对他们的培训不太感兴趣。男女学生在表演类别中,女生在监督类别中,都发现了对职业抱负的重要影响:结论:学生在从事外科手术活动时获得的积极体验会对他们以后的职业选择产生影响。特别是,良好的适应期和鼓励积极参与有助于吸引更多女性从事外科工作。
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GMS Journal for Medical Education
GMS Journal for Medical Education EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES-
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3.40
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30
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25 weeks
期刊介绍: GMS Journal for Medical Education (GMS J Med Educ) – formerly GMS Zeitschrift für Medizinische Ausbildung – publishes scientific articles on all aspects of undergraduate and graduate education in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy and other health professions. Research and review articles, project reports, short communications as well as discussion papers and comments may be submitted. There is a special focus on empirical studies which are methodologically sound and lead to results that are relevant beyond the respective institution, profession or country. Please feel free to submit qualitative as well as quantitative studies. We especially welcome submissions by students. It is the mission of GMS Journal for Medical Education to contribute to furthering scientific knowledge in the German-speaking countries as well as internationally and thus to foster the improvement of teaching and learning and to build an evidence base for undergraduate and graduate education. To this end, the journal has set up an editorial board with international experts. All manuscripts submitted are subjected to a clearly structured peer review process. All articles are published bilingually in English and German and are available with unrestricted open access. Thus, GMS Journal for Medical Education is available to a broad international readership. GMS Journal for Medical Education is published as an unrestricted open access journal with at least four issues per year. In addition, special issues on current topics in medical education research are also published. Until 2015 the journal was published under its German name GMS Zeitschrift für Medizinische Ausbildung. By changing its name to GMS Journal for Medical Education, we wish to underline our international mission.
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