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Table 4 Career and professional information of medical students in selected universities, Northwest Ethiopia, 2021

From: Rural job preferences of graduate class medical students in Ethiopia—a discrete choice experiment (DCE)

Variables

Category

Number

Per cent (%)

The original motivation to learn medicine

Desire to help others

173

49.15

Work internationally

26

7.39

Research opportunities

9

2.56

Job security

117

33.24

Others

27

7.67

Current motivation for learning medicine

Desire to help others

178

50.57

Work internationally

46

13.07

Research opportunities

12

3.41

Job security

84

23.86

Others

32

9.09

Participation in outreached service

Yes

119

33.81

No

233

66.19

Reasons not to work in a deprived area

Insufficient financial incentives

30

29.13

Lack of training opportunities

23

22.33

Insufficient research opportunities

3

2.91

Poor quality of facilities

25

24.27

Poor quality of housing

6

5.83

Insufficient professional support

7

6.80

Difficult to return to school

4

3.88

Others

5

4.85

Intention to migrate to other countries

Yes

184

52.27

No

168

47.73

Expected future specialty

Obstetrics and Gynecology

52

14.77

Surgery

104

29.55

Pediatrics

31

8.81

Internal Medicine

95

26.99

Others*

70

19.89

  1. *Radiology, dermatology, anesthesia, psychiatry, public health, management, ENT