Career Plans of Students of Dental-Medical Major at Medical University of Lublin in The Years 2004-2012

• Authors: Maria Cieszko-Buk , Teresa Bachanek , Ilona Wójcik-Chęcińska , Renata Chałas
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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Introduction. Higher education institutions thoroughly analyze the labor market. Knowing the career plans of students is important information showing the potential and direction of development of the labor market.Aim The aim of the study was to gather information on career plans and further development of graduates of the Division of Dentistry, Medical University of Lublin in the years 2004-2012.Material and methods The survey covered a group of 743 graduates of medical-dental faculty. Students filled in an anonymous questionnaire after passing the exam in conservative dentistry with endodontics. The questions concerned the location and nature of future work, as well as the desire to specialize and determining the area in which the graduate is planning to specialize.Results The question: “Where are you planning to start work after graduation?” – was answered by more than 35% of the students: “In a big city outside of Lublin.” Over 24% of respondents expressed a desire to return to their hometown, and 21% declared remaining in Lublin. Approximately 13.6% of respondents were considering going abroad, and about 5.65% of the students declared choosing village or a small town, as a place for future work. Among all graduated students, 45.5% would like to work in a medical joint venture, 38.5% wishing to undertake business activity in their own dental office. Only 7.4% of students declared their desire to remain at the university and carry out scientific work. The vast majority of graduates (87.35%) expressed the desire for specialization. The most frequently indicated specialization was conservative dentistry with endo-dontics – the choice was indicated by 22.62% of the respondents. Students expressed similar interest in further development in the field of oral surgery (20.33%), prosthodontics (20.33%) and orthodontics (18.58%).Conclusions Most of the students of dental-medical major of Medical University of Lublin after graduation planned to work in Poland. The respondents were planning to work primarily in medical partnerships or to open their own dental offices. The vast majority of respondents declared a desire to get specialization.

Keywords

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dentistry; students; career choice; education

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Polish Journal of Public Health
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 124
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 77-80

Dates

online

8 - 8 - 2014

Contributors

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Maria Cieszko-Buk

• Chair and Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Medical University of Lublin, Poland

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Teresa Bachanek

• Chair and Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Medical University of Lublin, Poland

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Ilona Wójcik-Chęcińska

• Chair and Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Medical University of Lublin, Poland

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Renata Chałas

• Chair and Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Medical University of Lublin, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/pjph-2014-0017