DOI: https://doi.org/10.36347/sjams.2026.v14i01.017

Pages: 102-106

Family medicine is an important specialty that provides continuous, coordinated, and comprehensive care for patients, within his or her family and the community in a holistic manner and this encompasses all ages, gender, race and every disease. Family medicine also provides comprehensive care of unselected patients with undifferentiated problems. It integrates clinical and biopsychosocial science in managing patient illness. It is a specialty that provides complete physical, mental, social, emotional, spiritual and occupational well-being of individual in within the family and the community. This study aimed to evaluate the Factors Influencing the Choice of Family Medicine as a Specialty Among Medical Students and House Officers in Tertiary Institutions in South-South Nigeria. This was a cross-sectional study involving 250 medical students (100) and house offices (150). Participants age between 18 to 47 years. A well-structured questionnaire was administered to participants. The study lasted for a period of 2 months. Statistical analysis was done using SPSS version 25.0 and p < 0.05 was significant. The results revealed that the participants were between 18 to 47 years, 40% of the participants were male, 60% female, 68% single, medical students 40%, House officers 60%, 48% were in federal institutions, 32% state, 20% private, 80% are aware of family medicine as a medical specialty, 60% first learned about family medicine at their clinical years, 80% had clinical postings in family medicine, 80% agreed that family medicine provides comprehensive and continuous patient care, 68%% agreed that family physicians have opportunities to work in diverse healthcare settings, 78% agreed that family medicine offers good career prospects in Nigeria and 80% are interested in choosing family medicine as a specialty. Family Medicine is a medical field that focused on comprehensive healthcare for people of all ages from newborns to seniors and majority of the participants are intere