Students | Allopathic cadre | Ayurvedic cadre | Nursing cadre |
---|---|---|---|
Attitude toward rural primary care | ● → Preferred jobs were in the urban private sector | ● → Open to both private and public job options, though preference was for the public sector | ● → Generally preferred jobs in the public sector. A few nurses had ambitions to work abroad |
● → Rural primary care jobs are perceived as not providing professional growth and respect | ● → Jobs in the primary health center give legitimacy to alternate health professions | ||
● → Rural primary care jobs in the public sector offered job security and satisfying work hours | |||
● → Specialization/postgraduate opportunities given utmost importance | |||
Key concerns of students in taking up rural primary care jobs | ● → Lack of professional growth | ● → Poor salary | ● → Job security wanted |
● → Inability to practice alternate medicine | |||
● → Adequate workload | |||
● → Poor salary | ● → Lack of work related facilities | ● → And regular timings wanted | |
● → Several contextual factors | |||
● → Lack of job prestige | ● → Inability to take leave during emergencies | ||
● → Poor personal security | |||
● → Lack of work-related facilities | ● → Several contextual factors | ||
● → Several contextual factors | |||
Concerns of in-service personnel in rural primary care jobs | ● → Fear of prolonged stints with no guarantee of transfers from rural area | ● → Fear of prolonged stints with no guarantee of transfers from rural area | ● → Fear of prolonged stints with no guarantee of transfers from rural area |
● → Poor status and salary in comparison with allopathic doctors | |||
● → Inability to take leave | |||
● → Inability to assist patients during the | |||
● → Poor salary compared to private practitioners | |||
● → Several contextual factors | |||
● → Lack of Ayurvedic drugs | |||
● → Several contextual factors | |||
● → Bureaucracy in public sectors jobs | |||
● → Several contextual factors |