Views of students of public health inspector training on further studies and employment opportunities

*Magdolna Sinka¹, István Barcs¹, Gyula Domján¹, Zsuzsanna Kiss Soósnè²

Summary
Introduction. The education of public health controllers – formerly public health and epidemiology supervisors and earlier public health and epidemiology controllers – has a history of more than 60 years. The graduates had relatively limited opportunities to continue professional training after graduation until the introduction of the Bologna educational system. They were mostly employed in the public sector and worked for authorities. Now that Hungarian higher education has been transformed after the pattern of the “Bologna process”, it offers several opportunities for the graduates for further studies in their fields.
Aim. The aim of the authors is to assess, analyse and summarize the plans of students who participated in the public health controller training of the Health Care Faculty of SemmelweisUniversity in the 2012/2013 academic year for the continuation of their studies and for finding employment in the professional field they have majored in, with a view to their choice between the public and the private sphere as well.
Material and methods. The population of the survey consisted of the students who had an active status in the second semester of the 2012/2013 academic year at the Health Care Faculty of Semmelweis, training to be public health controllers. Information was collected through questionnares.
Result. 52% of the students are planning to continue their studies in the field they have been studying in. The largest section of them, 46.2% would like to find employment in the public sector. 72.4% of the students surveyed would like to find employment in the field corresponding their present studies: 35.9% would like tobeemployed at the Public Health Administration Institution at the time of the survey,10.3% at the National Food Chain Safety Office (NÉBIH) and 20,5% in the private sphere.
Conclusion. The commitment of the students to the field they have been studying can clearly be seen both among those who are planning to continue their studies and also concerning the employment they are planning to find. The students participating in the survey are not typically planning to find employment abroad. Among those planning to find employment in Hungary the majority would prefer the public sector over the private sector. The opportunity to find employment at the public health authorities continues to be dominant for the students.

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