Usefulness of making career path in virtual cases for medical students

　医学教育におけるキャリア教育の重要性が高まっている.今回,山口大学医学部医学科2年生を対象に,3つの仮想ケースを提示し,うち1つを選んでもらい,キャリアパスを考えてもらった.記載された職業･職場,診療科,勤務地,婚姻や子どもに関することについて分析を行い,その有用性について検討した.キャリアパスで記載された主な職業･職場は,病院勤務,開業･診療所,大学教員･研究者が多くを占めていたが,行政,政治家,ビジネスなどの多様な職業も含まれていた.診療科は,内科と外科が主であったが,ケースによって異なっていた.山口県出身のケースでは県内を勤務地としているのがほとんどで,逆に,山口県外出身のケースは県外が多数を占めていた.女性のケースでは,結婚や子どもについての記載が多く認められた.仮想ケースのキャリアパス作成は,学生が自身のキャリアについて考える機会になり,キャリアに関する知識と意識の向上につながったと思われる.また,その記載内容によって,学生の将来の進路等に関する意識を把握することができた.この方法は,医学生を対象にしたキャリア教育において活用可能な手法と思われた.

The importance of career education is increasing in medical education. A career education curriculum of making career path was conducted in virtual cases, and the usefulness of the curriculum was examined. The curriculum was conducted in second grade students of the Yamaguchi University School of Medicine. The students were asked to make a career path for one case selected from among three virtual cases. The contents of their careers were analyzed in terms of occupation, specialty, workplace, marriage and children. In addition to major occupations including clinicians in hospitals, clinics and faculties and researchers in universities, various careers including public health practitioner, politician and businessman were selected. Although surgery and internal medicine were the dominant specialties, the proportion of the specialties was different among cases. In the case who came from Yamaguchi prefecture, most of students selected working at Yamaguchi prefecture, but most in the cases from other prefectures selected working outside of Yamaguchi prefecture. In the female virtual case, life events of marriage and children were described more frequently. Making a career path was a good opportunity for medical students to consider their own career and improve their knowledge and attitude to their medical career. Also, analyses of the career path elucidated consciousness of students about their career. This curriculum might be useful and applicable for career education at medical schools.

医学教育

キャリア教育

キャリアパス

医学生

意識調査