Short Communication: Medical graduates' attitudes towards their undergraduate general practice teaching in Hong Kong

Abstract

Medical graduates who attended the General Practice (GP) Unit of the University of Hong Kong for their GP clerkship during 1993 were surveyed on their attitudes towards the clerkship in the second half of 1995, i.e. approximately 12 months after graduation. Of the respondents, 54% thought the clerkship had positively changed their attitudes towards GP while 28% felt that the clerkship had positively affected their decision on choosing GP as their medical career. The results show that the clerkship has produced long-term positive effects on graduates' attitudes towards the discipline, at least into their early postgraduate years.