Open AccessA qualitative study on factors that influence Turkish medical students′ decisions to become family physicians after the health transformation programme
Author(s) -
Özlem Tanrıöver,
Seyhan Hıdıroğlu,
Hülya Akan,
Pınar Ay,
Yalçın Erdoğan,
Melda Karavuş,
Ayça Vitrinel,
Osman Hayran
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
north american journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2250-1541
pISSN - 1947-2714
DOI - 10.4103/1947-2714.134374
Subject(s) - specialty , turkish , medical education , scope (computer science) , family medicine , medicine , qualitative research , work (physics) , alternative medicine , pathology , sociology , mechanical engineering , social science , philosophy , linguistics , computer science , engineering , programming language
In Turkey, general practitioners were authorized to work as family physicians without specialization, within the scope of the Health Transformation Programme, due to inadequate number of family medicine specialists since 2004. With this new implementation Family Medicine specialty became a less preferable option for medical students.