Medical Students’ Career Choice and Attitudes towards Family Medicine in Morocco

Table 3

Factors associated with career choice of family medicine.

Factors	Choosing career of family medicine
	No (N = 201) n (%)	Yes (N = 77) n (%)
Gender
Female	132 (65.7)	56 (72.7)	0.163
Male	69 (34.3)	21 (27.3)
Parent is GP
No	191 (95.0)	71 (92.2)	0.262
Yes	10 (05.0)	6 (7.8)
Study level
1st	60 (29.9)	11 (14.3)	0.005
2nd	141 (70.1)	66 (85.7)
Personal experience as a patient in contact with a GP
No	145 (72.1)	42 (54.5)	0.004
Yes	56 (27.9)	35 (45.5)
Personal experience as a student in contact with a GP
No	136 (67.7)	32 (41.6)	<0.0001
Yes	65 (32.3)	45 (58.4)
Ambition of career development
No	47 (23.4)	42 (54.5)	<0.0001
Yes	154 (76.6)	35 (45.5)
Quality of clinical skills
No	149 (74.1)	42 (54.5)	0.002
Yes	52 (25.9)	35 (45.5)
Quality of humans and psychosocial skills
No	164 (82.8)	34 (44.2)	<0.0001
Yes	37 (18.4)	43 (55.8)
Income
No	155 (77.1)	64 (83.1)	0.176
Yes	46 (22.9)	13 (16.9)
Influence of the media (television, radio)
No	187 (93.0)	70 (90.9)	0.354
Yes	14 (7.0)	07 (9.1)
Opinion of the entourage (family, friends)
No	175 (87.1)	60 (77.9)	0.047
Yes	26 (12.9)	17 (22.1)

value (two percent comparison test using the Fisher’s test).