“It’s Every Family’s Dream”: Choice of a Medical Career Among the Arab Minority in Israel

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• 作者：Ariela Popper-Giveon ; Yael Keshet
• 刊名：Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：October 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：18
• 期：5
• 页码：1148-1158
• 全文大小：405 KB
• 刊物主题：Public Health; Sociology, general; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1557-1920
• 卷排序：18

文摘

Application to medical studies and the choice of medicine as a career are influenced by many factors, some internal (academic ability, intellectual curiosity, interests) and some external (parental pressure, peer pressure, teacher and school expectations). Ethnicity plays a role in motivational orientation and belonging to an ethnic minority group may influence both internal and external motives and priorities in choosing medicine as a career. In this article, we present a qualitative study of the motives that impel Arab physicians in Israel to choose a medical career. As a theoretical framework, we apply self-determination theory (SDT) (Ryan and Deci in Am Psychol 55:68–78, 2000), consisting of three principal categories situated along a continuum: Amotivation, extrinsic motivation and intrinsic motivation. We show that extrinsic motivation is dominant among Arab physicians in Israel, demonstrating specifically the unique political context and cultural characteristics of Arab society in Israel. These findings, and the attention to the unique motivations of people from different ethnic minority groups who choose medical career, may increase the number of physicians from minority groups, a step known to decrease health gaps in multi-cultural contexts.KeywordsArabsIsraelMedical educationPhysiciansMotivation