Factors affecting the enrollment of elective prescribed course of third- and fifth-year medical students at the Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University

Abstract

Introduction: This research aims to study the factors affecting the elective prescribed course ‘s enrollment of the third- and fifth-year medical students at the Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University.
Methods: The data were collected by means of questionnaires consisting of personal information, learning style and factors affecting the enrollment of elective prescribed course questionnaires.
The reliability is tested by Cronbach’s alpha method with the reliability of 0.92. The collected data is analyzed by descriptive statistics.
Results: The factor affecting the elective prescribed course’s enrollment of the third- and fifth-year medical students at the Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University sort in descending order
are personal, course-related and social factors. The most affected subfactors of each one are the daily life usage application, the enrolled course is interesting and the advice of the senior
medical student, respectively. The least affected subfactors of each one are the enrolled course suit with the student’s available time, the enrolled course does not require to travel out from
the faculty and the advice of their parent.
Conclusions: To achieve the elective prescribed course that suit the student need, the course provider should provide an interesting course with the potential to apply with daily life usage. Furthermore, the advice of the senior medical student is the most influential advice and the factor related to the travel or expenditure issues seem to be the least influence for both third- and fifth-year medical students.