Objective

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To analyze employment status and its tendency of eight-year program clinical medical graduates and explore its implications to talent cultivation using employment data from a university in Beijing.

Methods

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Descriptive analysis was used in this study. Indicators that were analyzed included quantity of employment

employment rate

employment region and specialty.

Results

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Between 2009 and 2021

a total of 2 281 eight-year clinical medical students graduated in the university. Among them

2 188 (96.0%) of them were employed in the year of graduation. On average

90.8% (2 034/2 241) of them were employed by medical institutions although the percentage decreased over years. A majority of them chose to work in economically developed provinces of eastern China. Those chose to work in Beijing accounted for 78.7% (1 723/2 188)

the highest percentage among all provinces. The top two specialties of choice were surgery and internal medicine

which respectively accounted for 33.0% (753/2 281) and 24.4% (557/2 281). Only a few of them chose to study some specialties that were challenged by a serious shortage of physicians

including pediatrics

mental diseases and mental health.

Conclusion

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Although the employment status of eight-year clinical medical graduates are good

it is still necessary to pay attention to the new tendency of employment

and further improve training scheme. Meanwhile

more guidance on choice of secondary specialties are needed to build a competent talent team for specialty development. Finally

education of curriculum iedology and politics should be strengthened to encourage them to work in specialties and remote provinces that face a serious shortage of physicians.