DYNAMICS OF MOTIVATIONAL DETERMINANTS IN THE CHOICE OF A DOCTOR PROFESSION BY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Abstract

The article presents the results of a study of the dynamics of motivational determinants of admission to a medical university. A voluntary anonymous survey of 244 graduate students in 2007 and 238 people graduating in 2020, studying in the specialties "General Medicine", "Pediatrics", "Dentistry", was carried out. The questionnaire asked to answer questions about the attractiveness of obtaining the profession of a doctor: "The prestige of the profession", "Family traditions", "Benefit people", "Material interest", "Striving for self-realization", "The ability to take care of the health of loved ones and their own", " Parents' advice ”,“ No problems with employment ”. The respondents could indicate several answers in the questionnaire. The analysis was carried out in the dynamic assessment of the respondents' answers with an interval of 13 years - 2007 and 2020. and by place in the ranking of motives in 2007 and 2020. According to the results of the study, during the observation period, the motive "To benefit people" occupies a stable leading position. Other motives such as "Family traditions", "Lack of problems with employment" have somewhat lost their relevance in the rating of assessing motivational determinants in 2020 and shifted from 6 to 8 levels, from 2 to 6, according to the considered motives. The motives "Prestige of the profession", "Striving for self-realization" and "Parents' advice" were somewhat actualized. The fifth step in the rating of motives remains for “Opportunity to take care of the health of loved ones and their own”. According to the results of the study, the motive “Material interest” was dominant in 2020. In 2007, a pragmatic orientation in the choice of the profession of a doctor was indicated in 9.5% of those who took part in the survey, in 2020 this indicator increased to 36.4%, in the ranking of motivational determinants it rose from the 7th step to 4. Results of the analysis of the dynamics of motivation for admission to a medical university showed the changing dominants of the motives for choosing the profession of a doctor over a thirteen-year period of time - there is a decrease in the subject's altruistic intentions that are of interest to society, and an increase in the pragmatic ones that interest this subject.