Considerations Regarding the Professional Practicing Choice of the Students from the Medical Faculties in Romania

Abstract Analysing students’ options regarding the specialty and the country in which they want to practice, provides useful information in judicious planning of human resources in the health system, the factors that motivate the choice, being both personal, difficult to change, but also economic or social that can be influenced by legislation, so that the number of deficient specialties decreases, and the disparity of the ensuring the medical services in urban to rural areas is reduced. This paper is a qualitative study, with voluntary response, applied to students of public and private medical schools in Romania, that investigates the intention to the professional practicing choice after graduation and the reasons of their decisions. The results show the orientation towards the urban environment in a percentage of 100% or for migration - between 2.2% and 50%. Regarding the chosen specialties, the results show that the most frequently chosen specialties were as follows: cardiology, surgery, internal medicine, specialties considered deficient in 2020.(1)