The Impacts of Medical Career Day to Medical Students' Interest to Pursue a Career in Public Health
Abstract: Medical career day
is one of the activities to introduce career options that exist and increase
interest in a particular career. This study aims to determine the effect of
material medical career day activities to increase the interest of medical
students to pursue a career to the field of public health sciences.
Method: This study is a quasi-experimental study with pretest-posttest
control group design. The control group received counseling about the field of
public health sciences, whereas the intervention group receive the same
counseling accompanied by a description of the activity-based cost and
opportunity cost in the field of public health sciences. The study population
was 216 students of medical faculty batch 2014. Out of 216 students, 70 met the
inclusion criteria, and only 36 who came to the activity. Data analysis was
performed using paired t-test.
Results: Thirty-six students came to the medical career day activities
are divided into 2 groups: the first 18 people who come into the intervention
group and 18 others to a control group. Increased interest in the control group
(p=0.003) and increased interest in the intervention group was also significant
(p=0.023).
Conclusion: Material medical career day activities plus activity based
cost and opportunity cost may increase the interest of students to pursue a
career to the field of public health sciences.
Keywords: Medical career day,
student’s interest, public health
Penulis: Rio Yus Ramadhani
Kode Jurnal: jpkedokterandd170012
