University Entrance Motivations of Pharmacy Students of Zanjan Pharmacy School

Job selection is the most important and basic apprehension of a person. Pharmacy is one of medical fields which have favorable interest and selection among most young people. Finding and improving of student's motivations and interests can improve their success. This study was performed to find the field selecting motivations among Zanjan pharmacy students in 1387.

In the present descriptive study, we used a questionnaire (consists of 17 questions) about Pharmacy major entrance motivations. The questioners were filled by pharmacy students (89 persons). Data were analyzed by descriptive statistical analysis and Mann-Whitney U test.

The most important motivation of pharmacy field selection were job opportunity, interested in drug compounding and social opportunity, on the other hand the lest effective factors were friend and family suggestion and hospital working. Sex compression showed that in the boy students higher incomes and social opportunity were more important than the girls.

It seems that the causes of field selection among Zanjan pharmacy students are similar to medical and dentistry students. Knowing the causes of field selection we can improve the place of pharmacists as medical team.