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Factors behind job preferences of Peruvian medical, nursing and midwifery students: a qualitative study focused on rural deployment

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dc.contributor.author Huicho Oriundo, Luis
dc.contributor.author Molina, Cristina
dc.contributor.author Diez-Canseco Montero, Francisco
dc.contributor.author Lema, Claudia
dc.contributor.author Miranda, J. Jaime
dc.contributor.author Huayanay Espinoza, Carlos Andrés
dc.contributor.author Lescano Guevara, Andres Guillermo
dc.date.accessioned 2019-02-06T14:52:36Z
dc.date.available 2019-02-06T14:52:36Z
dc.date.issued 2015
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/5321
dc.description.abstract BACKGROUND: Deployment of health workforce in rural areas is critical to reach universal health coverage. Students' perceptions towards practice in rural areas likely influence their later choice of a rural post. We aimed at exploring perceptions of students from health professions about career choice, job expectations, motivations and potential incentives to work in a rural area. METHODS: In-depth interviews and focus groups were conducted among medical, nursing and midwifery students from universities of two Peruvian cities (Ica and Ayacucho). Themes for assessment and analysis included career choice, job expectations, motivations and incentives, according to a background theory a priori built for the study purpose. RESULTS: Preference for urban jobs was already established at this undergraduate level. Solidarity, better income expectations, professional and personal recognition, early life experience and family models influenced career choice. Students also expressed altruism, willingness to choose a rural job after graduation and potential responsiveness to incentives for practising in rural areas, which emerged more frequent from the discourse of nursing and midwifery students and from all students of rural origin. Medical students expressed expectations to work in large urban hospitals offering higher salaries. They showed higher personal, professional and family welfare expectations. Participants consistently favoured both financial and non-financial incentives. CONCLUSIONS: Nursing and midwifery students showed a higher disposition to work in rural areas than medical doctors, which was more evident in students of rural origin. Our results may be useful to improve targeting and selection of undergraduate students, to stimulate the inclination of students to choose a rural job upon graduation and to reorient school programmes towards the production of socially committed health professionals. Policymakers may also consider using our results when planning and implementing interventions to improve rural deployment of health professionals. en_US
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher BioMed Central
dc.relation.ispartofseries Human Resources for Health
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject Peru en_US
dc.subject Female en_US
dc.subject Humans en_US
dc.subject Male en_US
dc.subject Pregnancy en_US
dc.subject Qualitative Research en_US
dc.subject Focus Groups en_US
dc.subject Motivation en_US
dc.subject Attitude of Health Personnel en_US
dc.subject Students, Medical en_US
dc.subject Physicians en_US
dc.subject Rural Population en_US
dc.subject Midwifery en_US
dc.subject Professional Practice Location en_US
dc.subject Rural Health Services en_US
dc.subject Students, Nursing en_US
dc.subject Career Choice en_US
dc.subject Nurses en_US
dc.subject Salaries and Fringe Benefits en_US
dc.subject Workforce en_US
dc.title Factors behind job preferences of Peruvian medical, nursing and midwifery students: a qualitative study focused on rural deployment en_US
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1186/s12960-015-0091-6
dc.subject.ocde https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.03.05
dc.subject.ocde https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.06.02
dc.relation.issn 1478-4491


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