Table 6.

Key differences among the three cadres of health workers

Students	Allopathic cadre	Ayurvedic cadre	Nursing cadre
Attitude toward rural primary care	● →  Preferred jobs were in the urban private sector	● →  Open to both private and public job options, though preference was for the public sector	● →  Generally preferred jobs in the public sector. A few nurses had ambitions to work abroad
	● →  Rural primary care jobs are perceived as not providing professional growth and respect	● →  Jobs in the primary health center give legitimacy to alternate health professions
			● →  Rural primary care jobs in the public sector offered job security and satisfying work hours
	● →  Specialization/postgraduate opportunities given utmost importance
Key concerns of students in taking up rural primary care jobs	● →  Lack of professional growth	● →  Poor salary	● →  Job security wanted
		● →  Inability to practice alternate medicine
			● →  Adequate workload
	● →  Poor salary	● →  Lack of work related facilities	● →  And regular timings wanted
		● →  Several contextual factors
	● →  Lack of job prestige		● →  Inability to take leave during emergencies
			● →  Poor personal security
	● →  Lack of work-related facilities		● →  Several contextual factors
	● →  Several contextual factors
Concerns of in-service personnel in rural primary care jobs	● →  Fear of prolonged stints with no guarantee of transfers from rural area	● →  Fear of prolonged stints with no guarantee of transfers from rural area	● →  Fear of prolonged stints with no guarantee of transfers from rural area
		● →  Poor status and salary in comparison with allopathic doctors
			● →  Inability to take leave
			● →  Inability to assist patients during the
	● →  Poor salary compared to private practitioners
			● →  Several contextual factors
		● →  Lack of Ayurvedic drugs
		● →  Several contextual factors
	● →  Bureaucracy in public sectors jobs
	● →  Several contextual factors