Publication: Assessment of prospective physician characteristics by SWOT analysis
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2012-01-01
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21804303
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1394195X
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Mahidol University
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Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences. Vol.19, No.1 (2012), 60-64
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Thira Woratanarat, Patarawan Woratanarat Assessment of prospective physician characteristics by SWOT analysis. Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences. Vol.19, No.1 (2012), 60-64. Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/15045
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Assessment of prospective physician characteristics by SWOT analysis
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Background: Thailand is one of the developing countries encountering medical workforce shortage. From the national registry in 2006, there were 33 166 physicians: 41.5% worked in the government sector, 21.6% worked in the private sector, and the remaining worked in non-medical felds. There is no current data to confrm the effectiveness of the national policy to increase physician production. We demonstrate our fndings from the strength, weakness, opportunity, and threat (SWOT) analysis in medical students and the potential impact on national workforce planning.Methods: We introduced SWOT analysis to 568 medical students during the 2008-2010 academic years, with the objective of becoming "a good physician in the future".Results: Pertinent issues were grouped into 4 categories: not wanting to be a doctor, having inadequate medical professional skills, not wanting to work in rural or community areas, and planning to pursue training in specialties with high salary/low workload/low risk for lawsuit. The percentages of medical students who described themselves as "do not want to be a doctor" and "do not want to work in rural or community areas" increased from 7.07% and 25.00% in 2008 to 12.56% and 29.65% in 2010, respectively.Conclusion: Further intervention should be considered in order to change the medical students' attitudes on the profession and their impact on Thai health system. © Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia.