Understanding what attracts trainees to a specialty, in this case nephrology, is elusive. Some factors relate to the individual, their personality andneeds; some factors are related to the field, including characteristics of daily work, patient problems, and an individual’s experience with nephrology and the people; and other factors are idiosyncratic. The reduced number of nephrology fellowshi...

BACKGROUND Following implementation of Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) in the UK, potential radiology trainees must decide on their career and apply sooner than ever before. We aimed to determine whether current trainees were sufficiently informed to make an earlier career decision by comparing the early radiology experiences of Traditional and Foundation Trainees. METHODS 344 radiology tra...

In today's dynamic and uncertain career context, values play an important role for career choice and lifelong career self-management. Values are desirable goals that are sought by individuals to satisfy their needs and are important for understanding career orientations in terms of protean and boundaryless career orientations and career anchors. However, how career orientations or career anchor...

The purpose of this study was to identify the characteristics of male occupational therapists so that better strategies for recruiting men into the profession can be developed and the problem of retaining men in the field can be addressed. Male occupational therapists were surveyed at 3-year intervals, in 1978, 1982, and 1985. Our survey results were compared with results of the 1969 American O...

Late adolescents with career choice problems often have psychological problems as well. The starting point of this study was the question of career choice counselors whether potential clients with career choice problems and psychological problems could be accepted in career choice intervention, or whether it was better to advise them to seek help for their psychological problems. We investigate...

The major challenge that confronts undergraduate chemical education in US is the gap between the high demands that learning requires and the low efforts that students make partially due to the lack of motivation. This paper reports strategies to ameliorate student learning in the following areas: application of friendly presentation, utilization of analogies and correlation with everyday life. ...

This study examines a group of middle school students who are Hispanic and their interest in attending college and pursuing a career in nursing. Although males and females both participated, mostly females expressed an interest in nursing as a profession. In this study investigators examined Hispanic middle school students’ knowledge and interest in attending college for a nursing degree and di...