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RODRIGUEZ SELPA, Silvia de la Caridad; HERNANDEZ GARCIA, José Guillermo; DURET CASTRO, Magalys  y  NOA CASTILLO, Yailin. Diagnosis of vocational guidance of medical students from Nuevitas´ university polyclinic. Rev Hum Med [online]. 2011, vol.11, n.1, pp.185-195. ISSN 1727-8120.

The article presents a diagnosis of the level of vocational guidance of those who enrolled for Medicine at Nuevitas´ university polyclinic in the academic years 2007-2008 and 2008-2009. A descriptive transversal study was carried out to assess the level of the vocational guidance of students before they began the medical course. Results showed that 89.1 % of the students primarily opted for Medicine, the level of the vocational guidance of the 84.7 % was deficient, and to be useful to the country was the prevailing reason (95.6 %) of their choice. These deficiencies influenced on the 34.7 % of dropouts due to an inappropriate role of institutions involved. In addition, there were some other reasons that influenced on their decision-making.

Palabras clave : VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE; REASONS; INTERESTS; DECISION-MAKING; DROPOUT FROM UNIVERSITY.

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