Open AccessFuture career plans of medical students and the COVID ‐19 pandemic: Time to recover?
Author(s) -
Goudarzi Houman,
Onozawa Masahiro,
Takahashi Makoto
Publication year - 2023
Publication title -
journal of general and family medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2189-7948
DOI - 10.1002/jgf2.591
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , medicine , medical education , study abroad , family medicine , psychology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pedagogy , pathology
In 2019 and before the COVID‐19 pandemic, about 68% of our medical students in Japan wished to engage in academic activities abroad. However, in 2020 and during the pandemic, this percentage fell to 35%. We found a significant increase in the number of students wishing to go abroad for studies/training in 2021 than in 2020, taking the percentage to the prepandemic level in 2019.