Table 2. Responses from medical students about volunteering for healthcare work during an influenza pandemic.

Statement	No. (%) positive responses
Health sciences students should be encouraged to volunteer in the event of healthcare worker shortage	226 (63.8)
Retired healthcare workers should be encouraged to volunteer	185 (52.3)
Healthcare students have moral/ethical/professional obligation to volunteer	247 (69.8)
Government is justified in requiring people to work if there are insufficient volunteers	15 (43.8)
Healthcare students should be penalized for refusal to comply with government requirement	30 (8.5)
Healthcare academic staff should be penalized for refusal to comply with government requirement	76 (21.5)
Expulsion from school/termination from work	34 (9.6)
Jail time	11 (3.1)
Fine	128 (36.2)
Other	62 (17.5)
None of the above	154 (43.5)