Medical students' attitudes towards and views of general practice careers in Singapore: a cross-sectional survey and qualitative analysis

Like many other countries, Singapore needs to support its ageing population by attracting more doctors into general practice (GP) and family medicine (FM). To achieve this requires a better understanding of what attracts or deters medical students. We conducted a cross-sectional survey among medical...

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Main Authors: Fang, Yang, Soljak, Michael, Tan, Shawn Lien Ler, Smith, Helen Elizabeth
Other Authors: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1601812023-03-05T16:51:03Z Medical students' attitudes towards and views of general practice careers in Singapore: a cross-sectional survey and qualitative analysis Fang, Yang Soljak, Michael Tan, Shawn Lien Ler Smith, Helen Elizabeth Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) Science::Medicine General Practitioners Family Medicine Like many other countries, Singapore needs to support its ageing population by attracting more doctors into general practice (GP) and family medicine (FM). To achieve this requires a better understanding of what attracts or deters medical students. We conducted a cross-sectional survey among medical students in Singapore. Ministry of Health (MOH) National Medical Research Council (NMRC) Published version This study was supported by Singapore Ministry of Health’s National Medical Research Council (NMRC) Health Services Research Grant (NMRC/ HSRG/0093/2018) 2022-07-14T05:37:22Z 2022-07-14T05:37:22Z 2022 Journal Article Fang, Y., Soljak, M., Tan, S. L. L. & Smith, H. E. (2022). Medical students' attitudes towards and views of general practice careers in Singapore: a cross-sectional survey and qualitative analysis. BMC Medical Education, 22(1), 266-. https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-022-03298-7 1472-6920 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/160181 10.1186/s12909-022-03298-7 35410191 2-s2.0-85128089263 1 22 266 en NMRC/ HSRG/0093/2018 BMC Medical Education © 2022 The Author(s). This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativeco mmons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data application/pdf
institution Nanyang Technological University
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Singapore
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topic Science::Medicine
General Practitioners
Family Medicine
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General Practitioners
Family Medicine
Fang, Yang
Soljak, Michael
Tan, Shawn Lien Ler
Smith, Helen Elizabeth
Medical students' attitudes towards and views of general practice careers in Singapore: a cross-sectional survey and qualitative analysis
description Like many other countries, Singapore needs to support its ageing population by attracting more doctors into general practice (GP) and family medicine (FM). To achieve this requires a better understanding of what attracts or deters medical students. We conducted a cross-sectional survey among medical students in Singapore.
author2 Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
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Fang, Yang
Soljak, Michael
Tan, Shawn Lien Ler
Smith, Helen Elizabeth
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author Fang, Yang
Soljak, Michael
Tan, Shawn Lien Ler
Smith, Helen Elizabeth
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title Medical students' attitudes towards and views of general practice careers in Singapore: a cross-sectional survey and qualitative analysis
title_short Medical students' attitudes towards and views of general practice careers in Singapore: a cross-sectional survey and qualitative analysis
title_full Medical students' attitudes towards and views of general practice careers in Singapore: a cross-sectional survey and qualitative analysis
title_fullStr Medical students' attitudes towards and views of general practice careers in Singapore: a cross-sectional survey and qualitative analysis
title_full_unstemmed Medical students' attitudes towards and views of general practice careers in Singapore: a cross-sectional survey and qualitative analysis
title_sort medical students' attitudes towards and views of general practice careers in singapore: a cross-sectional survey and qualitative analysis
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