BACKGROUND Surgical specialties have become increasingly subspecialized. An expanding demand for foot and ankle care administered by trained specialists has driven the need for foot and ankle-trained orthopaedic surgeons. This survey was designed to elucidate the reasons why residents choose a career in foot and ankle surgery. METHODS We conducted a national, anonymous, 11-question survey of ...

OBJECTIVES Surgery residency serves 2 purposes-prepare graduates for general surgery (GS) practice or postresidency surgical fellowship, leading to specialty surgical practice (SS). This study was undertaken to elucidate factors influencing career choice for these 2 groups. METHODS All US allopathic surgery residency graduates from 2009 to 2013 (n = 5512) were surveyed by the American Board o...

The medical schools of origin were identified in 1229 psychiatrists who qualified in the United Kingdom in the years 1961-75. The group was defined operationally as those who had entered for the preliminary test of the membership examination of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. From 1966-75 only 4 per cent of doctors opted for a career in the specialty. There are wide discrepancies between me...

BACKGROUND The causes of Blindness vary from place to place with about 80% of it been avoidable. Furthermore Blind people face a lot of challenges in career choice thus limiting their economic potential and full integration into the society. This study aims at identifying the causes of blindness and career choice among pupils in a school for the blind in South -Western Nigeria. MATERIALS AND ...

Standard economic models tend to be more speci…c about pecuniary payo¤s than non-pecuniary payo¤s to education. Based on Akerlof and Kranton (2000), we consider a model of career choice and identity where individuals derive nonpecuniary identity payo¤s. Using factor analysis on a range of attitude questions, we …nd two factors related to identity (career orientation and social orientation), whi...

t he last thing most new graduates expected to worry about when they entered their nursing programs was finding employment when they graduated. although it is true that a serious nursing shortage is still anticipated within a decade (Buerhaus, auerbach, & staiger, 2009), new graduates today across the country are experiencing difficulty securing their first job. the economic downturn over the p...

This paper examines the influence of educational debt aversion on the career choice of law school students, including the decision to attend law school and the decision to work in public interest law. To isolate the role of debt aversion, I analyze experimental data from NYU Law School’s Innovative Financial Aid Study in which two career-contingent financial aid packages were randomly assigned ...

OBJECTIVES The authors aim to determine the attitudes of University of Nairobi, Kenya, medical students toward psychiatry. METHODS The study design was cross-sectional. Self-administered sociodemographic and the Attitudes Toward Psychiatry-30 items (ATP-30) questionnaires were distributed sequentially to every third medical student in his or her lecture theater before or immediately after the...

The number of domestic graduates from Australian medical schools is set to increase by 81% in 7 years, from 1348 in 2005 to 2442 by 2012. Including international students, medical school graduates will total almost 3000 by 2012. Planning must begin now to ensure that the significant flow-on effects of these increases are managed effectively. Most urgently, postgraduate medical training will req...

Career choice in traditional disciplines has been well documented. The tourism and hospitality industries have also gained some attention, however, career choice research in the event, sport and recreation does not seem to have been addressed to any great extent. Knowing what students are looking for in a career is central to their attraction and recruitment into university degrees and, thus, t...