Student perception about working in rural Nepal after graduation: a study among first- and second-year medical students

Table 4 Suggested solutions by the student respondents to problems of working in a rural area and dealing with the rural population

Solution^a	Number (%)
Creating awareness among people about modern medicine	72 (38.9)
Training medical professionals to meet challenges of rural health	30 (16.2)
Improving general education in rural areas	20 (10.8)
Providing health education to the rural population	18 (9.7)
Arranging orientation program for doctors before posting in rural areas	12 (6.5)
Decreasing the gap between rural people and doctors	10 (5.4)
Providing medicines at cost price and free medical consultation	10 (5.4)

^aThese are suggested solutions by first- and second-year medical students. The relevance of these suggested solutions have been partly discussed in the Discussion. Many of these may be ‘generic’ solutions and more studies may be needed to obtain feasible solutions which can be implemented in practice.

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