Dynamics of career intentions in a medical student cohort: a four-year longitudinal study

BMC Medical Education

Table 1 Variables used to analyze the association between instability of career intentions and students’ characteristics

	Year of undergraduate medical studies
	3	4	5	6
Socio-demographics: Age and gender	x
Career intentions: • Specialty • Practice type	x	x	x	x
Having identified a positive role model				x
Motives for becoming a physician	x
Overall motivation for becoming a physician	x
Personality (NEO-FFI)	x
Empathy (JSE-S)		x
Coping strategies (CISS)		x

Measured variables are listed in first column. « x » indicates the year of undergraduate medical studies during which the variable was measured (not all variables were measured yearly)

ISSN: 1472-6920