Impacts of COVID-19 on career choices in health professionals and medical students
Backgrounds: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in not only significant mortalities in Vietnam but has had an impact on its economy. Previous studies have highlighted how the pandemic has had a marginal impact on Vietnamese healthcare workers working at the frontlines. To date, there have been seve...
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| author | Doan, Linh Phuong Dam, Vu Anh Trong Boyer, Laurent Auquier, Pascal Fond, Guillaume Tran, Bach Vu, Thuc Minh Thi Do, Hoa Thi Latkin, Carl A. Zhang, Melvyn Ho, Roger C. M. Ho, Cyrus S. H. |
| author2 | Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) |
| author_facet | Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) Doan, Linh Phuong Dam, Vu Anh Trong Boyer, Laurent Auquier, Pascal Fond, Guillaume Tran, Bach Vu, Thuc Minh Thi Do, Hoa Thi Latkin, Carl A. Zhang, Melvyn Ho, Roger C. M. Ho, Cyrus S. H. |
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The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in not only significant mortalities in Vietnam but has had an impact on its economy. Previous studies have highlighted how the pandemic has had a marginal impact on Vietnamese healthcare workers working at the frontlines. To date, there have been several other studies examining the impact of COVID-19 on intentions to transition between jobs among healthcare professionals, but this has yet to be explored amongst Vietnamese healthcare workers.
Methods:
To achieve the study’s objectives an online cross-sectional study was conducted between September to November 2021. Snowball sampling methodology was adopted for the recruitment of participants. The questionnaire that was used for this study comprised of the following sections: (a) socio-demographic information; (b) impact of COVID-19 on work; (c) risk of exposure to COVID-19; (d) career choices/intentions to change job, and (e) motivation at work.
Results:
There were 5727 completed the entire survey. 17.2% of the respondents have had increased job satisfaction, 26.4% reported increased motivation to work, and 40.9% reported decreased motivation to work. Whilst there were changes in the daily work intensity and the level of work-related stress, more than 60% of respondents we sampled did not intend to switch careers. Demographic variables like gender, whether one was a student or an existing healthcare worker, and income related to work motivation. The community’s stigma was a negative factor that declined intrinsic motivation as well as decreased work retention.
Conclusions:
Our study is instrumental in identifying the impact of COVID-19 on career choices amongst Vietnamese healthcare workers. The factors identified have clear implications for policymaking. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1695552023-07-30T15:37:56Z Impacts of COVID-19 on career choices in health professionals and medical students Doan, Linh Phuong Dam, Vu Anh Trong Boyer, Laurent Auquier, Pascal Fond, Guillaume Tran, Bach Vu, Thuc Minh Thi Do, Hoa Thi Latkin, Carl A. Zhang, Melvyn Ho, Roger C. M. Ho, Cyrus S. H. Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) Science::Medicine Career Choice Medical Student Backgrounds: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in not only significant mortalities in Vietnam but has had an impact on its economy. Previous studies have highlighted how the pandemic has had a marginal impact on Vietnamese healthcare workers working at the frontlines. To date, there have been several other studies examining the impact of COVID-19 on intentions to transition between jobs among healthcare professionals, but this has yet to be explored amongst Vietnamese healthcare workers. Methods: To achieve the study’s objectives an online cross-sectional study was conducted between September to November 2021. Snowball sampling methodology was adopted for the recruitment of participants. The questionnaire that was used for this study comprised of the following sections: (a) socio-demographic information; (b) impact of COVID-19 on work; (c) risk of exposure to COVID-19; (d) career choices/intentions to change job, and (e) motivation at work. Results: There were 5727 completed the entire survey. 17.2% of the respondents have had increased job satisfaction, 26.4% reported increased motivation to work, and 40.9% reported decreased motivation to work. Whilst there were changes in the daily work intensity and the level of work-related stress, more than 60% of respondents we sampled did not intend to switch careers. Demographic variables like gender, whether one was a student or an existing healthcare worker, and income related to work motivation. The community’s stigma was a negative factor that declined intrinsic motivation as well as decreased work retention. Conclusions: Our study is instrumental in identifying the impact of COVID-19 on career choices amongst Vietnamese healthcare workers. The factors identified have clear implications for policymaking. Published version This study was funded by NUS Department of Psychological Medicine (R-177- 000-100-001/R-177-000-003-001/ R177000702733) and NUS iHeathtech Other Operating Expenses (R-722-000-004-731). 2023-07-24T05:42:09Z 2023-07-24T05:42:09Z 2023 Journal Article Doan, L. P., Dam, V. A. T., Boyer, L., Auquier, P., Fond, G., Tran, B., Vu, T. M. T., Do, H. T., Latkin, C. A., Zhang, M., Ho, R. C. M. & Ho, C. S. H. (2023). Impacts of COVID-19 on career choices in health professionals and medical students. BMC Medical Education, 23(1), 387-. https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04328-8 1472-6920 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/169555 10.1186/s12909-023-04328-8 37237404 2-s2.0-85160250186 1 23 387 en R-177- 000-100-001 R-177-000-003-001 R177000702733 R-722-000-004-731 BMC Medical Education © The Author(s) 2023. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Science::Medicine Career Choice Medical Student Doan, Linh Phuong Dam, Vu Anh Trong Boyer, Laurent Auquier, Pascal Fond, Guillaume Tran, Bach Vu, Thuc Minh Thi Do, Hoa Thi Latkin, Carl A. Zhang, Melvyn Ho, Roger C. M. Ho, Cyrus S. H. Impacts of COVID-19 on career choices in health professionals and medical students |
| title | Impacts of COVID-19 on career choices in health professionals and medical students |
| title_full | Impacts of COVID-19 on career choices in health professionals and medical students |
| title_fullStr | Impacts of COVID-19 on career choices in health professionals and medical students |
| title_full_unstemmed | Impacts of COVID-19 on career choices in health professionals and medical students |
| title_short | Impacts of COVID-19 on career choices in health professionals and medical students |
| title_sort | impacts of covid 19 on career choices in health professionals and medical students |
| topic | Science::Medicine Career Choice Medical Student |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/169555 |
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