Although many anticipate that there will be an eventual shortage of practicing nephrologists, a complete understanding is lacking regarding the current factors that lead US adult nephrology fellows to choose nephrology as a career and their satisfaction with this choice. It is of great concern that interest in obtaining nephrology fellowship training continues to decline in the United States, e...

These brief reflections from 4 University of Cape Town (UCT) medical graduates who chose to make their careers in rural practice are written in narrative style to try to capture something of the lived experience of working in rural areas. Although still the career choice of a minority of UCT graduates, those who have chosen to practise in rural areas have found a solid base of competence and co...

this paper attempted to explore the expectation level of individuals to match themselves with the career offers and their awareness level to make the right decision in choosing right career in an economy of unemployment problems especially among the educated persons. this descriptive analytical research work is done on the basis of perceptions of students of different levels of education. the s...

BACKGROUND Given the looming shortage of physicians in Canada, we wished to determine how closely the career preference of students entering Canadian medical schools was aligned with the current physician mix in Canada. METHODS Career choice information was collected from a survey of 2,896 Canadian medical students upon their entry to medical school. The distribution of career choices of surv...

BACKGROUND It is important to inform medical educators and workforce planners in Anaesthesia about early career choices for the specialty, factors that influence them and to elucidate how recent choices of men and women doctors relate to the overall historical trends in the specialty's popularity. METHODS We analysed longitudinal data on career choice, based on self-completed questionnaires, ...

SETTING The influence of undergraduate and postgraduate training on health professionals' career choices in favour of rural and underserved communities has not been clearly demonstrated in resource-constrained settings. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to evaluate the influence of educational factors on the choice of rural or urban sites of practice of health professionals in South Africa. METHO...

INTRODUCTION The national junior doctor recruitment crisis prompts an appraisal of medical student attitudes to different career pathways. The purpose of this study was to perform a national review of surgical career intentions of Irish final year medical students. METHODS Ethical and institutional approval was obtained at each study location. A questionnaire was designed and distributed to f...

the child is a college student, where the pressure of academic demands, social interaction problems and career choices elevate the risk of committing suicide [3]. In children, 10 to 14 years old suicide is rare but if it happens, is due to the loss of a parent, abuse or psychopathology [3]. Although, age is an important factor, gender also provides information. Males usually do a complete suici...

The Residency Review and Redesign in Pediatrics (R(3)P) Project began in 2005 and will have been completed in 2009. The purpose was to conduct a comprehensive reassessment of general pediatric residency education. The project convened 3 major colloquia supplemented by numerous meetings of an R(3)P committee and by surveys of residents, subspecialty fellows, and generalist and subspecialty pract...