What Has Shaken the Determination of Medical Students to Become a Doctor?

The scarcity of doctors is common in underdeveloped countries as well as in some developing and developed countries including Japan, Germany, Australia, Korea, and even the United States of America, indicating that this scarcity has become a global issue. Causes vary from country to country. In China, the causes of this shortage are complicated. Due to increasing violence in recent years against medical staff that endangers the personal safety of medical practitioners, the number of Chinese medical school applicants has decreased greatly. Furthermore, the proportion of students who abandon the health sector is very high. Of roughly 500,000 medical graduate students in all programs, only a small proportion of them chose to enter professional practice in 2012. The high attrition rate of professional practice after graduation has significantly contributed to the scarcity of doctors in China.SCI(E)中国科学引文数据库(CSCD)EDITORIAL MATERIAL81001-100213