Выбор медицины под давлением родителей vs. следование собственному карьерному пути в Индии
Если вы действуете
Пойти на врача под давлением родителей
39%
Если вы бездействуете
Выбрать собственный путь в профессии
22%
Доля тех, кто впоследствии жалеет о каждом выборе. Столбцы и полный реестр показаны ниже.
Карьера
Последнее обновление 2026-05-13
Качество доказательств 3.63/5
Оценка по восьми измерениям согласно
рубрике качества
. Каждое измерение оценивается от 1 до 5.
D1 Проверка источников
4/5
D2 Авторитетность и независимость источника
4/5
D3 Точность уровня сожаления
3/5
D4 Сопоставимость источников
2/5
D5 Шаблон Гиловича
5/5
D6 Качество текста
4/5
D7 Полнота оговорок
4/5
D8 Качество выборки
3/5
Среднее3.63/5
Косвенные данные — для этого решения не существует прямого исследования сожалений. Показатели получены из оценок удовлетворённости и данных о барьерах доступа, а не из вопросов, непосредственно касавшихся сожалений. Смотрите оговорки ниже.
Сожаление о действии
Пойти на врача под давлением родителей
39%
39% первокурсников MBBS сожалеют о выборе медицины
Первокурсники MBBS в Телангане, Индия
поперечно, 2018
Сожаление о бездействии
Выбрать собственный путь в профессии
22%
~22% (оценка аналитика): прямого опроса о сожалении для выбравших немедицинский путь не существует; проксировано из данных о разрыве в профориентации и трудоустраиваемости инженеров
Индийские выпускники, выбравшие не MBBS/не инженерные пути
поперечно, 2019–2023
% сожалеют об этом выборе
Пойти на врача под давлением родителейВыбрать собственный путь в профессии
39%22%
action dominates — Действие преобладает — большинство сожалеет, что действовали.
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Career regret rates among Indian medical students are among the better-
documented in the developing world. A cross-sectional study of 150
first-year MBBS students in Telangana found that 39.33% reported
regret about their career choice, with the demanding nature of lifelong
medical study cited by 61% of those who regretted. A parallel study in
Andhra Pradesh found approximately 33%, placing
the Telangana figure within a nationally plausible range. Contextually,
a 2023 cross-sectional survey of 570 adolescents in Karnataka found that
87% reported high perceived parental academic pressure related to
competitive entrance examinations. These figures describe
a system in which career selection is frequently a family-level rather
than an individual decision, with regret emerging post-enrolment when the
reality of the training diverges from expectations.
The regret picture for those who pursue alternate paths is more favourable,
though measurement is far harder — no direct regret survey of non-medicine
choosers exists, so the inaction figure is an analyst estimate built from
proxies. A 2025 UN-sponsored survey of 21,239 Indian students (grades 9-12)
found that only about 10% reported receiving professional career guidance
before choosing a degree path. The near-total absence of structured guidance
means that deviating from the medicine/engineering track often happens
without actionable information, creating some degree of post-hoc uncertainty.
NASSCOM data reported by The Logical Indian places only about a quarter of
Indian engineering graduates as quality/employable (and barely ~2.5 lakh of
~15 lakh annual graduates secure core-industry jobs), demonstrating that the
socially prescribed alternative (engineering, when not medicine) carries its
own substantial failure rate. The ~22% inaction figure is therefore an
estimate, not a measured regret rate — it stands in for the share of
non-medicine graduates who plausibly report worse-than-expected outcomes on
social status or economic measures.
The 17-percentage-point gap (39% vs. 22%) follows the action-dominates
pattern identified by Gilovich and Medvec: the concrete, irreversible
decision to enter a multi-year training programme generates more sustained
regret than the diffuse, socially stigmatised decision to step outside
family expectations. Important caveats apply: both figures carry measurement
limitations. The MBBS regret rate is from a single regional sample, and
the inaction-regret rate is a proxy rather than a direct survey. Social-
desirability bias is also significant, as students surveyed in institutional
settings may underreport regret about a choice their family made for them.
The economic value of medicine varies sharply by specialisation, meaning
regret rates likely differ substantially between rural generalists and
urban surgeons.
Источники: действие
Реестр утверждений
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1/2 источников независимо дословно сверены с указанным источником
[1]Indian Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health — Career choice regrets among first year MBBS students: A cross-sectional study
Рецензируемая публикация
39.33% of first-year MBBS students reported career-choice regret; top reason was demanding nature of study (61%)
Выдержка
“"[Paraphrase from abstract — full text paywalled] A cross-sectional study of 150 first-year MBBS students in Telangana found that 39.33% reported regret about their career choice. The most commonly cited reason was the demanding nature of lifelong medical study, reported by 61.01% of those who regretted."
”
Данные источника:
2018-01-01
Дата обращения
2026-05-13
Расчёт
The 39.33% figure is taken directly from the study's reported prevalence of career-choice regret among n=150 first-year MBBS students. A parallel study in Andhra Pradesh found ~33%, placing the Telangana figure within a plausible national range. We use 0.39 as the action-regret rate.
[2]PubMed Central — Academic stress, perceived parental pressure, and anxiety related to competitive entrance examinations and the general well-being among adolescents – A cross-sectional survey from Karnataka, India
Проверено
Рецензируемая публикация
87% of surveyed adolescents (496 of 570) reported high perceived parental academic pressure related to competitive entrance examinations
Выдержка
“"Most of the adolescents, 496 (87.0%), have experienced high perceived parental academic pressure related to competitive entrance examinations. The majority of the adolescents, 490 (86.0%), have experienced high academic stress related to competitive entrance examinations."
”
Данные источника:
2023-08-01
Дата обращения
2026-06-30
Проверка
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Расчёт
The 87% parental-pressure figure establishes the structural context in which medicine is often chosen. It does not directly measure regret but supports the mechanistic link between external pressure and post-enrolment regret documented in the IJCMPH study.
Источники: бездействие
Реестр утверждений
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2/2 источников независимо дословно сверены с указанным источником
[1]ETV Bharat (reporting a UN-sponsored career-aspirations survey of 21,239 students) — Only 10% of Indian students receive career guidance
Проверено
Авторитетный справочник
About 10% of Indian students (grades 9-12) report receiving professional career guidance before choosing a degree path
Выдержка
“"Only 10.4% of students reported having professional guidance. Without professional guidance, students chase secure employment or trendy professions instead of exploring what truly suits their aptitude."
”
Данные источника:
2025-09-29
Дата обращения
2026-06-30
Проверка
Выдержка независимо повторно загружена и подтверждена слово в слово по указанному источнику в ходе нашей проверки достоверности.
Расчёт
With only ~10% of students receiving professional career guidance, roughly nine in ten who deviate from the socially prescribed medicine/engineering path do so without structured information, creating a distinct pathway for post-choice uncertainty about reduced income or status. This source measures guidance prevalence, NOT regret; the 22% inaction-regret figure is an analyst estimate (a proxy) informed by this guidance gap and the engineering-employability data below, not a direct survey of non-medicine choosers.
[2]The Logical Indian (reporting NASSCOM data) — NASSCOM Points At Failing Education System For Huge Employability Gap
Проверено
Авторитетный справочник
Only ~25% of Indian engineering graduates are quality/employable; of ~15 lakh annual graduates barely ~2.5 lakh (≈17%) secure core-industry jobs
Выдержка
“"Engineering colleges in India are churning out only 25 percent quality engineers, and nearly 80-85 percent of youngsters are not suitably trained for any job... India produces approximately 15 lakh engineering graduates annually, but barely 2.5 lakhs of them succeed in getting jobs in the core engineering industry."
”
Данные источника:
2023-03-04
Дата обращения
2026-06-30
Проверка
Выдержка независимо повторно загружена и подтверждена слово в слово по указанному источнику в ходе нашей проверки достоверности.
Расчёт
The roughly 80% non-employability rate for engineering graduates demonstrates that the "expected path" (MBBS or engineering) also carries substantial failure risk. This moderates the inaction-regret rate: choosing an alternate path does not guarantee worse outcomes, since the prescribed path has its own high failure rate. This source measures graduate employability, NOT regret. The 22% inaction-regret figure is an analyst proxy estimate (not a direct survey) for the share who experience reduced social status or economic outcomes relative to peer expectations after deviating from medicine.
Оговорки
The 39.33% figure comes from a single regional study (n=150, Telangana) and may not represent all Indian medical students nationally. A parallel Andhra Pradesh study found approximately 33%, suggesting the Telangana figure is at the upper end of a plausible range. The inaction-regret rate (22%) is a proxy derived from career-outcome and guidance-gap literature, not a direct survey of students who chose non-medicine paths. Social-desirability bias is significant in the Indian context: students who chose medicine under parental pressure may underreport regret if surveyed in institutional settings. The economic calculus changes substantially by specialisation: GPs and rural doctors earn considerably less than urban surgeons or specialists, so regret rates likely vary by the downstream career trajectory within medicine itself.
