Table 1 A sample of students' opinions of the current situation of choosing medicine

Reason of choosing medicine

"If someone gains scores high enough to enter the medical field but chooses another field, everybody thinks that he/she is stupid".

"It's important for high schools that their students enter the medical field".

"The medical field is completely different from other fields: the type of studies, its length, the number of courses, its duties. The burden of its work is more than other fields, yet it gives a good feeling."

"Everybody believes that medicine is superior to other fields."

"In other fields, there is no guarantee to reach the doctorate level as advancing to each higher stage requires that the students pass the relevant examinations. But in medicine the students are sure they will at least get their doctorate degree. Whether this degree is useful or not, is another problem."

"Everybody believes that medicine is a distinctive field."