Career and Family Choices Among Elite Liberal Arts Graduates

Rural intentions: factors affecting the career choices of family medicine graduates.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the reasons for family medicine graduates' career choices. DESIGN Qualitative study using focus groups and one-on-one interviews. SETTING University of Calgary in Alberta. PARTICIPANTS Seventeen male and female second-year family medicine residents, representing a range of ages and areas of origin, enrolled in the 2004 urban and rural south streams of the family m...

Factors Influencing the Career Choices of Medical Graduates

Methods: The study was a cross sectional observational analytic study of 250 interns from 5 medical colleges in Mangalore, Karnataka. Participants were chosen randomly from the intern’s registers of these colleges after obtaining IEC approval and permission from the administration of the respective colleges. Questionnaires were administered by interviewers and the data was collected and later a...

Career choices for cardiology: cohort studies of UK medical graduates

BACKGROUND Cardiology is one of the most popular of the hospital medical specialties in the UK. It is also a highly competitive specialty in respect of the availability of higher specialty training posts. Our aims are to describe doctors' early intentions about seeking careers in cardiology, to report on when decisions about seeking a career in cardiology are made, to compare differences betwee...

Liberal Arts and Medicine The Liberal Arts and Medicine: How the Liberal Arts Tradition Can Impact Health Care Reform

The liberal arts connection.

Occupational therapists need to be critical of who teaches, what is taught, how it is taught, how it is applied, and to whom it is taught in the entire education program of prospective occupational therapists. Further, I recommend that occupational therapy educators on campus take the lead in initiating meetings and discussions that facilitate a functional conjoining of occupational therapy pra...