Survey on students' attitudes of faculty of health in Tabriz University of Medical Sciences towards the field of study and Career future

Abstract

Background: This study was conducted to determine the attitudes of students of the Faculty of Health in Tabriz University of Medical Sciences towards their field of study and future careers.Methods: In this cross-sectional-descriptive study, 90 undergraduate students were randomly selected as the study population. Data were collected using questionnaires from the University of Minnesota, including 16 questionnaires, and analyzed using Stata Version 15 and descriptive statistical.Results: The mean scores of students' attitudes of environmental health engineering, occupational health engineering, and public health towards the field of study and career future were 46.83 ± 9.49, 51.99 ± 9.14, and 49.66 ± 7.87 (ranging from 16 to 80), respectively. More than 70 % of students were interested in working in the field of health sciences, but did not have a very positive attitude towards the field of study and career future. Nonetheless, the view of students of occupational health engineering was relatively more positive than other students, and the view of environmental health engineering students was more negative. Results showed a reverse statistically significant correlation between attitude with age and academic year (P=0.001). Also, there was a positive significant correlation (P = 0.01, r = 0.966) between students' attitudes toward the field of study and their Career future.Conclusion: Students' attitudes toward their field of study and career future were not positively evaluated. Increasing the number of graduates, lack of job security, and the labor market were the most important factors reducing students' attitudes.

Keywords

• discipline
• career future
• motivation
• viewpoint
• health students