Reasons for choosing the profession and profle of newly qualifed physicians in Brazil

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Objective: To evaluate the socio-demographic profle, path to medical school admission and factors affecting the choice of becoming a physician in Brazil. Method: Application of a structured questionnaire to 4,601 participants among the 16,323 physicians who graduated between 2014 and 2015 that subsequently registered with one of the 27 Regional Boards of Medicine (CRMs). Results: The average age of participants is 27 years, 77.2% are white, 57% come from families with a monthly income greater than ten times the minimum wage, 65% have fathers who have completed higher education, 79.1% attended a private high school, and 63.5% selected the "will to make a difference in people's lives or do good" as their main reason for choosing medicine, with some differences between the sexes and matriculation at a public or private medical school. Conclusion: The recent politics for educational diversity and the opening of additional medical schools has not yet had an impact on the socio-demographic profle of graduates, who are mainly white, wealthy individuals.

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Scheffer, M. C., Guilloux, A. G. A., Dal Poz, M. R., & Schraiber, L. B. (2016). Reasons for choosing the profession and profle of newly qualifed physicians in Brazil. Revista Da Associacao Medica Brasileira, 62(9), 853–861. https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9282.62.09.853

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