Table 1.
Scales, items and reliabilities (alpha) concerning attitudes towards medicine and general practice in particular from medical students of the Maastricht University in 2002/03.
| Scale | Items | Alpha |
| Preferred patient category and type of work: | ||
| - Chronically ill patients and palliative care | Chronically ill patients | .72 |
| Geriatric patients | ||
| Palliative care | ||
| Long-term contacts with patients | ||
| - Acute patients and technology-orientated work | Technical activities | .75 |
| Highly specialised work | ||
| Availability of personnel and equipment | ||
| Emergency care | ||
| Acute patients | ||
| Preferred work conditions | ||
| - Prestige orientation | Income | .70 |
| Career opportunities | ||
| High status | ||
| - Controllable lifestyle | Part-time work | .76 |
| Regular working hours | ||
| Leisure time | ||
| Assessment of work in general practice | ||
| - Work intrinsic factors | Variety of patients and disorders | .68 |
| Contacts with family of patients | ||
| Individual treatments | ||
| Variety of work | ||
| Collaboration and communication with colleagues | ||
| - Work extrinsic factors | High status | .63 |
| Income | ||
| Career opportunities | ||
| - Work conditions | Working hours | .81 |
| Work load | ||
N = 175