Medical Specialist Preferences and Reasons among Fresh Nigerian Interns

Empathy in Iranian medical students: A comparison by age, gender, academic performance and specialty preferences

Empathy is an important element of physician-patient communication. Empathy is linked to a number of attributes such as patient treatment compliance and satisfaction, better history taking and physical examination and therefore achieving better clinical outcomes. Previous research indicates that self-reported empathy among medical students declines during the course of their medical education a...

Freshmen versus interns' specialty interests.

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine career preferences of medical students at the time of entering medical school compared with interns who were graduating; and to determine what factors influence the choice of a special discipline as a career. METHODS A cross-sectional, questionnaire-based survey study involving freshmen and interns at Tehran University of Medical Sciences was...

A case for more year-long internships outside metropolitan areas?

OBJECTIVE To determine whether medical graduates who spent their intern year at a non-metropolitan hospital were more likely to practise outside metropolitan areas on completion of training than were interns in metropolitan hospitals. DESIGN Retrospective follow-up of doctors who held year-long internships at a non-metropolitan hospital and interns from metropolitan hospitals. SETTING Balla...

A study on career preferences and attitude towards the rural health services among the graduating interns of a medical college in Bangalore rural

Preliminary evidence from Queensland that rural clinical schools have a positive impact on rural intern choices.

INTRODUCTION The unequal and inequitable distribution of the medical workforce between rural and urban parts of Australia has been well documented. Commonwealth and state governments have introduced several significant initiatives in an attempt to address this imbalance, including recruitment of many overseas trained doctors. One longer-term initiative is the funding of university departments o...