Investigating the perceptions of career development as the Japanese regional quota medical students and graduates in A prefecture.

Background: There are few reports about the perceptions of the regional quota called Chiikiwaku medical students and graduates.
Method: Eighty-four medical students and 41 graduates were enrolled in A prefecture. The questionnaire comprised 22 items scored on a 7-point Likert scale, focusing on perceptions of merit and demerit of Chiikiwaku . The data were collected online.
Results: Chiikiwaku students scored higher on an item such as 'regional quotas are a solution to the doctor shortage'. Chiikiwaku graduates felt more burdened than Chiikiwaku students.
Conclusion: Our results suggested that the perception of Chiikiwaku was different between Chiikiwaku students and graduates.
Competing Interests: M.S, N.T, and K.M are members of the Graduate School of Medicine Endowed Chairs in Nagoya University, which is endowed by Aichi prefecture government and Nagoya city government. The other authors declare no conflicts of interest associated with this manuscript. Kei Miyazaki is an Editorial Board member of Journal of General and Family Medicine and a co‐author of this article. To minimize bias, they were excluded from all editorial decision‐making related to the acceptance of this article for publication.
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