Penza, 30 January 2012. PenzaNews. 40% of medical high schools entrants of the Penza region want to become surgeons. Such data was received by experts of the regional Ministry of Health and Social Development after questioning of senior pupils of medical classes.

According to Tatyana Manuhina, the head of the press-service of the department, 30% interrogated dream to become dentists, 10% of respondents want to be pediatrician, 7.5% of entrants will be cardiologists and 5% prefer to master other professions.

Thus, according to results of poll, 90% of schoolboys intend to work for public health services, 10% want to work for private clinics.

According to the interlocutor of agency, 60% of respondents would like to raise salary level in system of public health services, 30% want to cancel paid services, and 10% are eager to change the relation of the doctor to patients.

“Only 5% of the interrogated answered that they decided to be a doctor because of salary. The majority of graduates, or 60%, want to help people, more than 20% aspire to dialogue with patients. 15% of entrants said that this profession is in demand,” the representative of the department said.

Answering the question why they have chosen a medical trade, 75% of schoolboys said that medicine is their calling, 15% are sure that it is prestigious to be a doctor and 10% follow their parents.