Inclination of undergraduate medical students towards teaching as career

摘要

Introduction: There is acute shortage of teachers in medical field and very few new members are joining this noble profession. The shortage of medical teachers is resulting in decrease of teaching quality, decrease in number of medical seats and the country is losing its education standard worldwide. Aims: To find out the view and inclination of undergraduate medical students towards teaching as career. Objectives: It is an attempt to find possible reasons preventing or stimulating the undergraduates students to consider teaching as career. Many studies are available about the students view towards clinical specialties choice but literature hardly mentions medical teaching as choice. The objective is to attempt to collect undergraduate students view. Methods: A questionnaire based cross sectional descriptive study involving 315 undergraduate MBBS students of first year (115), second year (72) and third year part II (128). Their responses were recorded on Likerts scale, tabulated and analyzed. Conclusion: This study shows a trend going against the option of teaching as career. The data collected does not give definite proof but indications are visible that as the students progresses from first to final year their positive attitude towards considering teaching as career show decline.