Why do graduates choose to work in a less attractive specialty? A cross-sectional study on the role of personal values and expectations

• Main Authors: Van Anh Thi Nguyen (Author), Karen D. Könings (Author), E. Pamela Wright (Author), Giang Bao Kim (Author), Hoat Ngoc Luu (Author), Albert J. J. A. Scherpbier (Author), Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Primary health care (PHC), of which preventive medicine (PM) is a subspecialty, will have to cope with a deficiency of staff in the future, which makes the retention of graduates urgent. This study was conducted in Vietnam, where PM is an undergraduate degree in parallel to medic...