BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Student perceptions of day-to-day physician work life, and relationships between these perceptions and specialty choices, have not been quantitatively explored. The study's purposes were to measure student perceptions of primary care and specialist physician work life, including administrative burden, time pressures, autonomy, and relationships with patients, to determ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the timing of and key factors in resident decision making to pursue either a career in general pediatrics or subspecialty training. DESIGN We used a 10-item fixed-choice questionnaire that focused on exploring how and when pediatric residents make career choices. SETTING The survey was administered to all categorical pediatric residents in the United States and Canada...

The above question was asked by a sincere second-year medical resident who was struggling with the decision regarding career choices. Advice received by many, including the Chairman of Medicine, was to become an internist/primary care physician in order to maximize the probability of future employment security. This advice sounds very convincing in today’s marketplace and seems to be supported ...

This longitudinal study aimed at investigating Polish medical students' career choice motivation, factors influencing specialty choices, professional plans and expectations. The same cohort of students responded to the same questionnaire, at the end of Year 1 and Year 6. The Chi-square, Mann-Whitney U tests and logistic regression were used in analyses. The results showed that altruistic and sc...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study's purpose was to evaluate the relationship between medical student debt and primary care specialty choice, while examining the potentially confounding effects of family income and race/ethnicity. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was offered to all students at three medical schools between 2006 and 2008. The survey assessed students' anticipated educational...

Copyright: © 2013. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS OpenJournals. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Background: Community-based education (CBE) is utilised by health science faculties worldwide to provide a relevant primary care experience for students and a service to underserved communities and, hopefully, to affect student career choices. The benefits to train...

BACKGROUND The student-run clinic (SRC) has the potential to address interprofessional learning among health professions students. PURPOSE To derive a framework for understanding student learning during team-based care provided in an interprofessional SRC serving underserved patients. METHODS The authors recruited students for a focus group study by purposive sampling and snowballing. They ...

OBJECTIVES To assess the distribution of University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) medical graduates from 1960 to 1994 with regard to private or public sector work, chosen specialist or generalist careers, and work in urban or rural areas, looking for secular trends and gender differences. DESIGN A cross-sectional analysis of the register of what was then the South African Medical and Dental Cou...