한의과대학 예과생의 진로관련 특성에 관한 연구

Abstract

Objectives: This study was aimed at exploring career-related characteristics of premedical students in Korean Medicine college and those relationships with career development readiness and vocational value. Methods: A total of 140 premedical students participated in the survey. The questionnaire consisted of demographic characteristics and career-related characteristics such as motive for career choice, specialty preference after college graduation, and school life adaptation. Also they responded in the web-survey of career development readiness inventory and vocational value inventory developed by Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education & Training. Eight items of motive for career choice were collected from the pilot study from 70 premedical students. Results: ‘Job stability’ was the top motive for career choice (25.5%). The average college life adaptation score was relatively low (13.7): higher in male (14.3) and the early career decision group (14.2) than female (12.9) and late decision group (12.9), which was statistically significant (p=0.019 and p=0.036, respectively) in the subgroup analyses. The result of career development readiness inventory showed that ‘self-knowledge’(79.3) and ‘confidence on career decision’(78.6) were the two highest, which is similar to the result of the vocational value inventory (‘fulfilling abilities’ and ‘self-improvement’). More characteristics were also described. Conclusions: The results showed that Korean Medicine premedical students have high vocational identity. This study suggested that more specified studies for identifying career-related characteristics for Korean Medical students should be conducted in order to design systematic and professional medical education programs.