Effect Of Clinical Clerkship On Career Choice Of Second Clinical Year Medical Students In Collage Of Health Sciences At Addis Ababa University Addis Ababa Ethiopia
Background: Anaesthesiology is one of disproportionately affected medical specialty inrnproviding adequate number of professionals,There aremisguided assumptions, perceptions andrnpaucity of knowledge regarding this filed by medical students and also by General practitionersrnwhich might contribute to a Skewed career choices. To alleviate the gap in work force andrnquality of service Several studies have suggested thatProviding medical students with arnstructured clinical rotation provides an opportunity for students to learn a wealth of medicalrnknowledge, procedural skills and to get a feel of what a career in anesthesiology involveswhichrnin turn influences their perception of anaesthesia and carrier choice. rnObjective:To explore the effect of a clinical clerkship on career choice in considering anesthesiarnof C II students attaching from March 19 2021-May 30 2021. rnMethod: Institutional based Descriptive cross-sectional study is used at AAU School of healthrnscience. The source population is allCII medical students attached to anesthesia clerkship formrnMarch 19 2021-May 30 2021.Sample size was 149.Data was collected using a pre attachmentrnand post attachment self-administered questionnaire. Descriptive statistics and bivariate logisticrnregressionmodel was used.Variables with a p-value