BACKGROUND During their final year of medical school, Israeli students must consider which specialty to choose for residency. Based on the vocational counseling literature we presumed that choices are made by selecting from a cluster of related specialties while considering professional and socio-economic issues. METHODS Questionnaires distributed to final-year medical students at two Israeli...

The total supply of logistics talents is in short, and the training lags behind development industry. Therefore, it necessary to improve effectiveness classroom teaching cultivate faster better. effective performance cloud computing management plays a role getting twice result with half effort. method flexible appropriate. Starting from definition specialty, authors discusses characteristics sp...

Subjects: 84,182 patients admitted to specialty and general ICUs with an admitting diagnosis or procedure of acute coronary syndrome, ischemic stroke, intracranial hemorrhage, pneumonia, abdominal surgery, or coronaryartery bypass graft surgery. ICU type was determined by a local data coordinator at each site. Patients were classified by admission to a general ICU, a diagnosis-appropriate (“ide...

International emergency medicine development includes many activities. Among them are efforts to establish and support the development of the specialty of emergency medicine. In carrying out such activities, it is important for emergency physicians to be aware of the story of the establishment and development of the specialty of emergency medicine in the United States and to seek ways to suppor...

The rapid increase in specialty cardiac, surgical, and orthopedic hospitals has captured the attention of general hospitals and policymakers. Although the number of specialty hospitals remains small in absolute terms, their entry into certain health care markets has fueled arguments about the rules of "fair" competition among health care providers. To allow the smoke to clear, Congress effectiv...

PURPOSE To identify preoperative factors (including surgeon factors) associated with outcome scores after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). METHODS Medical records of 2848 patients (3458 knees) who underwent primary TKA by 27 orthopaedic specialists were retrieved. Three specialty knee surgeons who had one-year fellowship in TKA performed 1930 TKAs, and 24 general orthopaedic surgeons performed ...

BACKGROUND Access to specialty care remains a challenge for primary care providers and patients. Implementation of electronic referral and/or consultation (eCR) systems provides an opportunity for innovations in the delivery of specialty care. We conducted key informant interviews to identify drivers, facilitators, barriers and evaluation metrics of diverse eCR systems to inform widespread impl...

The influence of local area physician supply on the dispersion of care among Medicare patients with a consistent diagnosis. Table 8. Number of physicians in the four specialty groups within 50 miles from each patient's zip code centroid (The numerator of the local physician supply measurements). Table 9. Number of patients treated by all medical physicians within 50 miles from each patient's zi...

BACKGROUND Personality influences an individual's adaptation to a specific job or organization. Little is known about personality trait differences between medical career and specialty choices after graduating from medical school when actually practicing different medical specialties. Moreover, whether personality traits contribute to important career choices such as choosing to work in the pri...

Gender inequality is more pronounced in urology than any other specialty the UK. There are numerous barriers, biases and cultural characteristics that stop women taking up as their specialty. All of these will need to be overcome if equality achieved.