Career in radiology; the ghanaian clinical medical Student's perception

Klenam Dzefi-Tettey; Emmanuel Kobina Mesi Edzie; Edmund Kwakye Brakohiapa; Philip Narteh Gorleku; Adu Tutu Amankwa; Abubakari Bawah Abdulai; Iddrisu Baba Yabasin; Kafui Kossi Kekessie; Ewurama Andam Idun; Caroline Emmanuella Ntiamoah-Koufie; Franklin Acheampong; Bright Oppong; Frank Quarshie; Henry Kusodzi; Abdul Raman Asemah

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e12603

Career in radiology; the ghanaian clinical medical Student's perception

Klenam Dzefi-Tettey, Emmanuel Kobina Mesi Edzie, Edmund Kwakye Brakohiapa, Philip Narteh Gorleku, Adu Tutu Amankwa, Abubakari Bawah Abdulai, Iddrisu Baba Yabasin, Kafui Kossi Kekessie, Ewurama Andam Idun, Caroline Emmanuella Ntiamoah-Koufie, Franklin Acheampong, Bright Oppong, Frank Quarshie, Henry Kusodzi, Abdul Raman Asemah

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Background: The importance of radiology in this era of evidence-based medicine cannot be disputed. This has resulted in the increase in demand for radiologists. Thus, the issue of whether there would be sufficient numbers of medical students to meet this growing demand needs further probing. Purpose: To assess Ghanaian clinical medical students’ perceptions about a career in radiology. Materials and methods: This was an online questionnaire-based survey of 575 clinical medical students in five public medical schools in Ghana from September 2020 to February 2021. Student's t-test and one way analysis of variance was used to compare means. For the Likert scale questions, differences in the mean Likert scale responses were assessed among various clinical year groups and across gender using Kruskal-Wallis test and Mann–Whitney U tests. A logistic regression was used to determine the significant predictors of the choice of radiology as a career. Results: Most 340 (59.1%) of the participants were males. The average age of participants was 24.64 ± 3.084 years. Students agreed that, radiology is relevant in this era of evidence-based medicine (mean Likert score = 4.62, SD = 0.819), which yielded significant responses in the third clinical year (p = 0.004). Nearly 30% of respondents stated they did not receive enough didactic lectures or tutorials in radiology, citing insufficient lectures (89.9%), a lack of lecturers (9.5%), and trouble grasping ideas (0.7%) as their main concerns. 133 (23.1%) stated they would choose radiology as a specialty, with flexible working schedule (61.9%) and high income (68.3%) as their topmost reasons. Less patient contact (8.0%) was the least observed reason. A flexible working schedule increased the choice of radiology as a specialty by 2.319 folds (95% CI: 1.413–3.805, P = 0.001). Teleradiology significantly contributed to the choice of radiology as a career (p = 0.001). Conclusion: Generally, the clinical students had varied but positive perceptions on radiology as a specialty.

Original language	English
Article number	e12603
Journal	Heliyon
Volume	8
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e12603
Publication status	Published - Dec 2022

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Career
Clinical medical students
Ghana
Perception
Radiology

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Dzefi-Tettey, K., Kobina Mesi Edzie, E., Brakohiapa, E. K., Gorleku, P. N., Amankwa, A. T., Abdulai, A. B., Yabasin, I. B., Kekessie, K. K., Idun, E. A., Ntiamoah-Koufie, C. E., Acheampong, F., Oppong, B., Quarshie, F., Kusodzi, H., & Asemah, A. R. (2022). Career in radiology; the ghanaian clinical medical Student's perception. Heliyon, 8(12), Article e12603. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e12603

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Dzefi-Tettey, K, Kobina Mesi Edzie, E, Brakohiapa, EK, Gorleku, PN, Amankwa, AT, Abdulai, AB, Yabasin, IB, Kekessie, KK, Idun, EA, Ntiamoah-Koufie, CE, Acheampong, F, Oppong, B, Quarshie, F, Kusodzi, H & Asemah, AR 2022, 'Career in radiology; the ghanaian clinical medical Student's perception', Heliyon, vol. 8, no. 12, e12603. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e12603

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