Abstract
The pharmacy profession has expanded and adapted to changes in community needs. Although career planning and understanding the determinants of career choice are essential, there remains a lack of studies exploring factors influencing future career plans. This study was conducted to identify career preferences and factors influencing future career choices among undergraduate pharmacy students. A cross-sectional study was carried out at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Khartoum. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data from randomly selected participants. Out of 220 respondents, 85.9% were females. The average age of the respondents was 21.7 ± 1.5 years. Clinical pharmacy was selected as the most preferred future career domain (30%), followed by academia and research (12%), the pharmaceutical industry (11%), and community pharmacy (10.5). Approximately 20% of participants reported a preference for moving abroad for work. Regarding factors influencing future career domain choice, participants ranked training in the workplace (80%) and curriculum content (70%) as the top faculty-related factors, while interaction with practicing pharmacists (71.8%) and salary (78%) were the major personal-related and job-related factors. This study emphasized the importance of understanding job preferences and the factors influencing career choice, and could be useful in ensuring a future balance between professional domains and meeting society’s evolving expectations.
Subject
Pharmacology (medical),General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
Reference42 articles.
1. Pharmacy: a profession in transition or a transitory profession?
2. First-Year Pharmacy Students’ Views on Their Chosen Professional Career
3. Developing Pharmacy Practice: A Focus on Patient Care: Handbookhttps://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/69399/?sequence=1
4. The Nine-Star Pharmacist: An Overview
5. FIP Statement of Policy on Good Pharmacy Education Practicehttps://www.fip.org/file/1518
Cited by
5 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献,注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献,订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献