Recent years have witnessed an overwhelming redefinition of career choices which have transcended the normal traditional boundaries. The environmental framework has played a crucial role in creating a pervading sense of temporariness and instability worldwide. There is the birth of the new age employee who wants more from the career now than decades before. The paper discusses the non-tradition...

OBJECTIVES To characterize the career choices and developments made by leading senior surgeons in this country and to examine hypothetically whether application of a short tracking program would have hindered their career decisions. DESIGN A survey pertaining to each surgeon's career, decisions, and opinions concerning surgical training. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Senior surgeons of regional ...

Receiving the National Academy of Neuropsychology's Lifetime Contributions to Neuropsychology Award promoted reflection on values and decisions. Selecting the topic of the presentation associated with the award also led to rumination. The term "lifetime" was the deciding factor: how does one choose and start a career path, what advice might one give to individuals embarking on their own career,...

The Discover Engineering Summer Camp, launched in 1991, is a summer day camp that targets students in grades 10 to 12. According to the data from the 2001 camp, 98% of the participants indicated that the camp increased their knowledge about engineering, and 94% indicated that the camp increased their interest in considering engineering as a career option. This paper discusses activities that ha...