Factors That Influence Specialty Choice—A Mix Method Survey to Explore Student Choices

Positive predictive value of medical student specialty choices

BACKGROUND Although medical school programs oriented toward postgraduate specialty training have the potential to reduce the duration and cost of medical school for US medical students, success depends on the ability of students to predict their postgraduate specialties. It is clear that first-year choices are poorly predictive, but it is not known when predictions become sufficiently reliable ...

Medical student debt and major life choices other than specialty

BACKGROUND Median indebtedness at graduation is now more than $170,000 for graduates of US Medical Schools. Debate still exists as to whether higher debt levels influence students to choose high paying non-primary care specialties. Notably, no previous research on the topic has taken into account cost of attendance when constructing a debt model, nor has any research examined the non-career maj...

Introducing Meta-Partition, a Useful Methodology to Explore Factors That Influence Ecological Effect Sizes

The study of the heterogeneity of effect sizes is a key aspect of ecological meta-analyses. Here we propose a meta-analytic methodology to study the influence of moderators in effect sizes by splitting heterogeneity: meta-partition. To introduce this methodology, we performed a meta-partition of published data about the traits that influence species sensitivity to habitat loss, that have been p...

The influence of controllable lifestyle on medical student specialty choice.

Student and Faculty Choices That Widen the Experience Gap

A major teaching challenge for higher education faculty is students’ wide differences with respect to experience or knowledge with the subject matter or skill set of a class. In computing education research, this is often referred to as the “experience gap.” Research shows that the experience gap contributes to the low participation of women in professional information technology (IT) careers. ...