Influence of medical school curriculum on primary care specialty choice

The influence of controllable lifestyle on medical student specialty choice.

[Motives for choice of specialty during and after medical school].

BACKGROUND The basis for preference and choice of specialty is a complicated mixture of individual interests and job opportunities. We wanted to investigate the possible explanations for such preferences and choices. MATERIAL AND METHOD Two groups of Norwegian doctors, 421 who entered medical school in 1993 and 631 who completed medical school in 1993 and 1994, received four questionnaires be...

Medical student debt and primary care specialty intentions.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study's purpose was to evaluate the relationship between medical student debt and primary care specialty choice, while examining the potentially confounding effects of family income and race/ethnicity. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was offered to all students at three medical schools between 2006 and 2008. The survey assessed students' anticipated educational...

The influence of temperament and character profiles on specialty choice and well-being in medical residents

BACKGROUND Multiple factors influence the decision to enter a career in medicine and choose a specialty. Previous studies have looked at personality differences in medicine but often were unable to describe the heterogeneity that exists within each specialty. Our study used a person-centered approach to characterize the complex relations between the personality profiles of resident physicians a...

Influence of controllable lifestyle on recent trends in specialty choice by US medical students.

CONTEXT Recent specialty choices of graduating US medical students suggest that lifestyle may be an increasingly important factor in their career decision making. OBJECTIVE To determine whether and to what degree controllable lifestyle and other specialty-related characteristics are associated with recent (1996-2002) changes in the specialty preferences of US senior medical students. DESIGN...