The study
was conducted with two public
universities in Ghana: University of Ghana (UG) in
Accra and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and
Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi. These universities
were selected because
all the fourth year medical students
in the public universities had their clinical training
at either UG or KNUST at the time of the study.
All
310 fourth year medical students in the country were
invited to participate in the study; no sampling was conducted.
Fourth-year medical students were selected
because they had completed the BSc. Human Biology
and had also been exposed to field work, but had not
yet made their final decisions about rural or urban