Specializing in Neurosurgery – perception of medical students’ and significant factors influencing

Abstract

Background

Neurosurgery is an important area of Medical Science. Nervous system is connected with different other systems of the body – plays a vital role in integration. Unfortunately relatively less number of students willing to join in the field. Hence the present study was undertaken to find out the determinants for the choice of Neurosurgery for the future career specialization.

Methods

The present questionnaire based study was done in Manipal College of Medical Sciences, Pokhara in Nepal. 269 students answered the questionnaire completely and correctly, giving an overall response rate of 79.58%.

 Results

There are several factors found vital for medical students for neurosurgery. Routine work (25.28%), diversity of work (19.66%) was most significant followed by team work, long relation with patients (12.92%), communication skills (6.74%) etc.

Conclusion

We found several factors played crucial role for the choice of Neurosurgery. Students should attend Neurosurgery clinics to get interest in the subject. Different practical oriented aspects like neurophysiological procedures and interventional neurology they need to read more.