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• The choice of medical career – What do our field work experiences represent?

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  Zsuzsa Győrffy

  Anna Susánszky

  Zsuzsa Szántó

  Éva Susánszky

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  42

  Background: One of the greatest challenges of the XXI. century is the changing of the medical profession. Beside of the process of deprofessionalism, the demographic and social composition of the medical society have also been altering. More women became medical doctors in recent years. Parallel to these changes, the career motivations of medical students are transforming. Method: 175 first year medical students from the Semmelweis University participated in our study. They wrote about their career motivations based on a fixed set of viewpoints. The narratives were analysed by both quantitative and qualitative (content analysis) methods. Results: The female students are committed to medical profession at younger ages. The most important factors in career choices are altruism and scientific interest for both genders. There is a male dominance in career motivations of experiences, knowledge and benefits. Conclusions: The changing face of career motivations has a significant impact on both the physicians and the patients. This issue opens up possibilities for following research.

• Equal opportunities and integration in the career choice: The relation between school competences and job market integration

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  Irén Sipeki

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  The competences manifested in the career choice decisions refer to the success of integration
  and equal opportunities. They are able to forecast these social processes in a predictive way. The
  career choice competences connect the individual features and the social scenes, so by analysing
  them already the secondary school age group’s labour market success can be predicted.
  By studying and analysing of the competence fields with the method of revealing the sociological, psychological and pedagogical correlations it is possible to determine the labour market competences of students facing career choice, which determines the success of their social
  integration into the society at a personal level. Career choice plays a connecting part between education at schools and the labour market; therefore it has an important part concerning equal
  opportunities and integration, beyond the effect of qualification. In my study I am describing this
  process via displaying the affected competence fields.