Specialty Choice Stability: Are There Implications for Early Entry Into Residency?

Relationship between pharmacy residency examination rank and specialty choice for French pharmacy residency-admitted students

OBJECTIVE To analyze the link between the rank at the national pharmacy residency examination and the choice of pharmacy specialty for hospital residency-admitted French pharmacy students. METHODS Examination ranks as well as the pharmacy residency specialty to which residency candidates are finally admitted were collected for all students (n=1948) having successfully passed the national Fren...

The Effect of Medical Student Volunteering in a Student-Run Clinic on Specialty Choice for Residency

INTRODUCTION  Student-run free clinics (SRFCs) are a recent popular addition to medical school education, and a subset of studies has looked at the influence of SRFC volunteering on the medical student's career development. The majority of the research done in this area has focused on understanding if these SRFCs produce physicians who are more likely to practice medicine in underserved communi...

P30: Are There Anxious Genes?

Anxiety comprises many clinical descriptions and phenotypes. A genetic predisposition to anxiety is undoubted; however, the nature and extent of that contribution is still unclear. Extensive genetic studies of the serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) transporter (5-HTT) gene have revealed how variation in gene expression can be correlated with anxiety phenotypes. Complete genome-wide linkage s...

The ethical implications of screening for HIV: whose choice reigns?

HIV pharmacy specialty residency program in Canada.

Prescribing and managing antiretroviral medications is be coming increasingly complex. Furthermore, patients may require agents for the prophylaxis or treatment of opportunistic infections, nutritional deficiencies, pain relief, sleep and mood disturbances, and gastrointestinal and lipid disorders. The median number of daily medications in people with HIV infection ranges from 2 to 5 but may be...