Preference of Medical Students about Opening a Clinic

Abstract

In Japan, the factors which affect the opening of clinics are investigated. The results are that:
1) The factors of women, the occupations of their fathers to be independent physicians and entering medical schools to get high incomes make medical students want to be independent physicians.
2) When they are in their 40s, 50s, and 60s, the factors of women and entering medical schools to save lives and not to be stable cause medical students to want to work for the medical universities.
3) When they are in their 40s, 50s, and 60s, the factors of men and the occupations of their fathers to be independent physicians cause medical students to want to open clinics. The results are reverse for the intension to work for hospitals.