BACKGROUND Little research addresses how medical students develop their choice of specialty training in crisis and resource-poor settings. The newly graduated medical students determine the future of the healthcare system. This study aims to elucidate the factors influencing Syrian medical students' specialty selection and students' intentions to study abroad. METHODS A cross-sectional study ...

Background: Stroke is the leading cause of adult death in China and worldwide, characterized by high morbidity, disability, mortality, recurrence economic burden, often to various functional impairments, such as motor impairment, sensory swallowing consciousness impairment cognitive impairment. Therefore, finding effective intervention methods currently a hot difficult issue stroke rehab...

M 4: Schooling and immigration controls, with control for students attending schools with more than 10% immigration (Group 1: Students born abroad with at least one parent born abroad, Group 2: Students born in the country with at least one parent born abroad. Omitted group: Students with native parents.Other language: other language spoken at home. Imm (10%): the student attends a school with ...

Two studies with Chinese international students in Belgium and Canada investigated the role of two motivational factors in students’ decision to study abroad: the level of self-determined motivation and the content of their goals. A newly developed questionnaire, the Self-regulation Questionnaire—Study Abroad was used to test the hypothesis that self-determined motivation to study abroad would ...

Language learners and educators have subscribed to the belief that those who go abroad will have many opportunities to use the target language and will naturally become proficient. They also assume that language learners will develop relationships with native speakers allowing them to use the language and become more fluent, an assumption Pellegrino (Pellegrino, 1997, 1998) found to be held by ...

BACKGROUND In Denmark, immigrants have been found to have a higher use of healthcare services abroad. Since this use may have an impact on both the individual patient and the healthcare system in the country of residence, research into underlying reasons is of increasing relevance. This study therefore investigates what motives patients with an immigrant background have for seeking healthcare s...

OBJECTIVE To assess medical and nursing students' intentions to migrate abroad or practice in rural areas. METHODS We surveyed 3199 first- and final-year medical and nursing students at 16 premier government institutions in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Malawi, Nepal, the United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia. The survey contained questions to identify factors that could predict studen...

OBJECTIVE To study possible "import" routes of HIV infection to Norway (by obtaining information on casual sexual contacts abroad from patients attending an STD clinic), and to assess their behavioural risk factors (such as alcohol intake, use of condom) for HIV infection. DESIGN AND SETTING Patients visiting the clinic for sexually transmitted diseases (STD), April-June 1989, received a ques...

BACKGROUND The fact that youth take sexual risks when they are abroad have been shown in previous studies. However, it is not known if they increased their sexual risk-taking when travelling abroad, compared to the stay in their homeland. OBJECTIVE To assess whether Swedish youth increased their individual sexual risk behaviour, defined as having a casual sex partner, when travelling abroad a...