A longitudinal study of medical specialty choice and certainty level

Social dominance theory and medical specialty choice.

Understanding how medical students select their specialty is a fundamental issue for public health and educational policy makers. One of the factors that students take into account is a specialty's prestige which hinges partly on its focus on technique rather than whole person. We examine the potential of a psychological framework, social dominance theory, to explain why some students, and not ...

Personality and Medical Specialty Choice: A Literature Review and Integration

Factors Influencing Pediatric Specialty Choice among Pediatric Residents of Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences

Factors influencing the choice of the subject could strengthen the knowledge and motivation to enter the field to promote the health of society. This study explores factors influencing specialty choice of Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences pediatric department residents In this cross-sectional study all 38 pediatric residents were was undertaken using a questionnaire designed to a...

Incentives and physician specialty choice: a case study of Florida's Program in Medical Sciences.

The growing shortage of primary care physicians in medically underserved areas of the nation led medical schools and policymakers years ago to design and fund numerous innovative medical education programs to foster the development of a more balanced physician workforce. Florida's Program in Medical Sciences (PIMS) was an example of one such initiative that was established in fall 1971 at Flori...

The specialty choices of graduates from Brighton and Sussex Medical School: a longitudinal cohort study

BACKGROUND Since 2007 junior doctors in the UK have had to make major career decisions at a point when previously many had not yet chosen a specialty. This study examined when doctors in this new system make specialty choices, which factors influence choices, and whether doctors who choose a specialty they were interested in at medical school are more confident in their choice than those doctor...