J Furness, J Phillips, E Canetti, K Kemp-Smith
Exploring mental health approaches and curriculum in physiotherapy: an Australasian perspective
Physiotherapy theory and practice
neurosurgery surgical discipline demands comprehensive knowledge specialties regarded one competitive specialties however new trend toward considering lifestyle friendly specialties therefore study aims assess neurosurgery perception identify potential factors influencing attitudes observational surveybased study conducted medical students college medicine imam abdulrahman bin faisal university dammam saudi arabia onlinebased questionnaire administered participants consisted two main parts first part collected demographic data second part included 20 likert scalebased questions pearsons chisquare test utilized statistical significance set p005 total 305 medical students various academic years participated questionnaire survey nearly equal gender distribution remarkably significant majority 7672 expressed uncertainty disagreement regarding adequacy neurosurgery education medical studies substantial portion participants 695 found neurosurgery intriguing almost half 4787 indicated would pursue future specialty consideration neurosurgery career path showed statistically significant differences relation gender academic year p0009 p0001 respectively study emphasizes gender academic year affect choosing neurosurgery career notes limitations like selfreporting bias singleinstitution scope may affect generalizability future research might consider national summer training programs engage students neurosurgery