Background
: The education of family medicine for medical students is a starting point to make progress the relationship of mutual cooperation among doctors through improving the understanding of family medicine and training a good primary care physician who plays the fundamental role as a main body in the field of medicine in future. This report was planned to help us establish the direction for education of family medicine by understanding to above subject.

Methods : This study based on the questionnaires answered by 194 juniors registered in a medical school in 1992 and 1993. The questionnaires of 173 juniors, whose degree of completion was comparatively high, were analysed.
As to the above subject, three groups were appeared in the view of considering what specialty medical students were willing to manage; Family Medicine Considering Group, Other Specialty Considering Group, and Uncertain Group. The characteristics of family medicine considering group were compared with the others.

Results : In general characteristics of each group, three groups had similar demographic and socioeconomic traits. There were 19 students(11.0%) who consider family medicine as a career after graduation. Three incentives to be a medical doctors as a job in family medicine considering group were like the followings; interest in helping people, job security, and encouragement of others. In conparision with the others. family medicine considering group had higher interest in helping people. In methodologic types of approaching to the patients, there was no difference among one another. The most important way of service to the patients was working with patients to prevent illness in family medicine considering group. To coincide with his philosophical thought was the most important reason for the choice of specialty as a career in family medicine considering group and there was a difference between two specialty as a career in family medicine considering group and there was a difference between two specialty considering group in this point of view. As for preferential career after graduation, there was a contradistinction between a salaried clinical practitioner of family medicine considering group and a professor of the other groups. As to the location planned for practice or employment, family medicine considering group prefering to county or rural area had difference from that of the others. In family medicine considering group, the cognitive degree on contents of family medicine and family physician was higher than the others significantly.

Conclusion : It is very important to manage continuously medical students who consider family medicine as their specialty, to guide positively their career, and to pick out and manage students who have similar trend. Additionaly, we should concentrate our efforts on improving the understanding of family medicine in medical field.