Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate if habitus, the unconscious and embodied mental structures founded early in life, can contribute to our understanding of how individuals choose a medical specialty. Methods: A qualitative approach was employed using standardized open-ended interviews. In the present research, sampling was purposive, with an aim to illuminating the study o...

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE A cold climate towards primary care (PC) within medical academia could form a barrier against choosing family medicine (FM) as a career option. This study was designed to determine whether medical students' knowledge of and attitudes towards FM predicted their career choice. DESIGN AND SETTING Cohort study conducted at two different medical schools. METHODS After compl...

PRINCIPLES The proportion of medical graduates entering a surgical career in Switzerland, as well as in most Western countries, is declining. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the factors influencing medical students when choosing a career in surgery and to identify the impact of a surgical clerkship. METHODS Between February 2007 and July 2007, fifth- to seventh-year medical s...

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...

The choice of a specialty by medical students is a complex one that has significant implications for the future supply of physician manpower. The study by Weissman et al. portrays this choice as reflecting the degree of congruence between a student's needs and values and his or her perception of the characteristics of the various specialties. The existing shortages in the supply of various spec...

INTRODUCTION Since the number of applicants to residencies in general surgery in Argentina seems to be decreasing, we designed this work with the objective of studying the factors considered undesirable by students when choosing surgery as a specialty. MATERIAL AND METHODS Between March and April 2012, one-hundred students were surveyed with a structured questionnaire with true/false binary a...

The factors that lead medical students to choose a particular career specialty are complex and poorly understood (Newton, Grayson, & Thompson, 2005). In the past fifteen years, the percentage of medical students choosing primary care careers (e.g. family practice, general internal medicine) has declined sharply, while the percentage of students entering careers such as plastic surgery and emerg...

BACKGROUND To meet the needs of the ageing population, more geriatric medicine doctors are required. We aimed to determine: (i) career preferences of junior doctors with an interest in geriatric medicine, (ii) factors influencing the likelihood of junior doctors undertaking a career in geriatric medicine and (iii) whether a geriatric medicine conference for junior doctors influenced their views...

OBJECTIVES To examine the extent, and nature, of impact on junior doctors' career decisions, of a proposed new contract and the uncertainty surrounding it. DESIGN Mixed methods. Online survey exploring: doctors' future training intentions; their preferred specialty training (ST) programmes; whether they intended to proceed immediately to ST; and other plans. Linked qualitative interviews to e...

The author analyzes how the modern education system contributes to formation of socio-economically determined choice higher education, where latter includes a decision on continue studying, choosing university and specialty. functioning is analyzed in context interconnections labor market family resources, which reflect movement human capital current trends social mobility Central Asia, as exem...