Survey On Status Of Career Planning And It's Influence Factors Of Female Medical Undergraduates Of One University

Objective To understand the status of career planning of the female medical undergraduates and to explore the factors, thus to strengthen students' consciousness of career planning and provide practical basis for establishing guidance system of students' career planning and teaching management.Methods 500 female students of clinic medicine and nursing science from the first year to the fifth year from Xiangya Medical School of Central South University were recruited by using stratified random sampling to complete the questionnaire. The questionnaire includes three parts: A individual information sheet, undergraduate career planning questionnaire designed by Jin Shuren and self-designed influential factors of career planning questionnaire. Descriptive analysis, Independent-samples T-test and ANOVA were performed by the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) 11.0.Results1.Career Orientation: Most female medical undergraduates cannot determine their career goal, 59.7% of the students were developing conforming to other's expectations or still in the state of exploring, anxiety, wilderness.2.Major Interests: 34.9% of the female medical undergraduates considered that major was more important than interests; 64.7% of the students regarded that their present major did not meet their expectation; 59.0% of the students believed that both work and individual interests were important.3.Vocational Cognition: Conceptions of future probable vocation of female medical undergraduates focus on vocational future and vocational requirements of knowledge, skill, capability and other aspects. They got the information mainly come from parents, relatives, friends and teachers (78.4%); magazines and books (62.2%); television, films and internet (60.5%)4.Employment Confidence: 84.8% of female medical undergraduates considered that present major and future work was related (including significant related and related); 60.1% of the students were very confident and confident to find a job; most students selected a job according to their interests and specialties, individual character, values and suggestions of teachers and relatives.5.self-planning: 58.4% of the female medical undergraduates were very clear or clear about their five years plans; Only 26.3% of students were very clear or clear about the methods and steps of career planning; 87.6% of students did not know, seldom or never got career planning guidance of school; 81.5% of students had strong intention or intention to further study; They had higher cognition level of their character, capability, interest and value. 6.Students' cognition of the factors influencing career planning: The highest marks in these factors were: temperament, character, and capability; educational manners of parents; interpersonal relationship; available resource; professional future and vocational image. The students of different major, grade, career orientation and whether from only-child family held different cognition.Conclusions1. The total status of career planning of the female medical undergraduates is not good. The main traits are: no career orientation, blindly professional choice, lack thorough understanding of the occupation, weak consciousness of career planning, inadequate career planning guidance provided by school.2.The main influential factors of career planning are: personal temperament, character, and capability; educational manners of parents; interpersonal relation; available resource; professional future and vocational image.3. The major, grade, career orientation and whether from only-child family put different influence students' cognition of career planning respectively.