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Medical Students' Perceptions of Family Medicine in Latvia: Qualitative Interview Data

Dataset

Description

This dataset contains pseudonymised interview transcripts with 3rd–6th year medical students about their career choices and perceptions of Family Medicine in Latvia. The interviews explore students’ motivations, experiences during medical studies, attitudes toward general practice, perceived prestige of medical specialties, and views on working in Riga or regional areas, as well as support mechanisms for attracting future family physicians.
Date made available21 May 2026
PublisherRīga Stradiņš University Institutional Repository Dataverse
Date of data production31 Aug 2025
Geographical coverageRiga, Latvia

Keywords

  • family medicine
  • general practitioner
  • healthcare in Latvia
  • Enhancing General Practitioner Resilience in Latvia: Challenges and Solutions

    Grope, I. (Project leader), Bite, D. (Member of project working group), Duhovska, J. (Member of project working group), Dūdele, A. (Member of project working group), Harris, M. F. (Member of project working group), Hīstere, S. L. (Member of project working group), Griķe, I. (Member of project working group), Kohva, A. (Member of project working group), Kore, M. (Member of project working group), Kozlovska, L. (Member of project working group), Ķīvīte-Urtāne, A. (Member of project working group), Ribakova, A. (Member of project working group), Žabicka, A. (Member of project working group), Puzo, I. (Member of project working group), Brūveris, M. (Member of project working group), Potetinova, I. (Member of project working group), Livdanska, B. (Member of project working group), Galiņš, T. (Member of project working group), Irbe, M. (Member of project working group), Šmits, D. (Member of project working group), Valius, L. (Member of project working group) & Patri, J. R. (Member of project working group)

    Latvian Council of Science

    1/09/2430/06/26

    Project: Research and development projects financed by the Latvian state budgetNational Research Programme Projects

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