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Abstract
To fully understand the precise reasons as to why there is a high rate of attrition of medical students from the health industry, we conducted a cross-sectional questionnaire survey among students in the 8-year program for medicine at Peking University Health Science Center in July 2014. Applying to medical school is a result of parental than a student's own will, which is principally based on parental knowledge of the medical profession. [...]Chinese high school students lack social practice before choosing the specialty in university; most students will work immediately after graduation with few opportunities for consideration of career alternatives. [...]the 4th and 8th years of medical school can be considered two turning points for employment tendency. Results from a cross-sectional, correlational study among teaching GPs of University of Bern and the 4th year medical students indicate that medical students' perception of their GP teachers' job satisfaction positively affects their wish to become GPs, and their satisfaction with their internships adds to this. [4] Back to our survey, 38.2% and 36.8% of students chose their supervisor and supervising doctor during the rotation as those who have influenced their choice, which provides a similar perspective to that of students of University of Bern. [...]the improvement in the work environment of in-service physicians, especially those in medical school's teaching hospital, might be helpful in keeping medical students committed to health. Department of Cardiology, Peking University Third Hospital, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Molecular Biology and Regulatory Peptides, Ministry of Health, Key Laboratory of Molecular...