objectives: the current study aimed at investigating the relationship between identity status and career maturity among adolescents with visual disorders, as compared to normal adolescents. methods: the study had two populations: all normal high school students in tehran city (including boys and girls) and all visually-disabled high school students in tehran (including boys and girls). the samp...

INTRODUCTION There is abundant evidence that rural origin is an influence on rural career choice. Rural origin is widely used to select students to be supported into programs designed to address the rural medical workforce shortage. What is not as clear is how many years of rural upbringing are required to have a maximal effect on rural career choice. Neither is the place of having a sense of r...

The study examined the factors that influence career choice in accounting among Nigerian university students. Authors in the field of education and behavioural science tend to attribute different factors that influence career choice among individuals. Parental influence, self – desire, better pay, prestige and future prospects were found to be the major influencial factors in career choices amo...

OBJECTIVE To report on doctors' early choices of specialty at selected intervals after qualification, and eventual career destinations. DESIGN Questionnaire surveys. SETTING United Kingdom. PARTICIPANTS Total of 15 759 doctors who qualified in 1974, 1977, 1983, 1993, and 1996, and their career destinations 10 years after graduation. RESULTS 15 759 doctors were surveyed one and three yea...

Recruitment to occupational therapy has long been of concern and studies, principally from North America, have identified the factors influencing career choice so that the shortfall of applicants may be addressed. Studies at Brunel University in London have provided United Kingdom data, with the most recent study (Craik and Zaccaria 2003) summarising the views of 444 first-year students. This f...

During the apartheid years in South Africa, career guidance amongst disadvantaged learners was largely absent and, for many, career choices were limited and governed by politics. Despite South Africa having celebrated 20 years of democracy, this situation has improved only slightly. Therefore, the aims of the study were to determine the factors that influenced students’ career choice and to asc...

Women are under-represented in academic medicine. We reviewed the empirical evidence focusing on the reasons for women's choice or rejection of careers in academic medicine. Using a systematic search, we identified 52 studies published between 1985, and 2015. More than half had methodological limitations and most were from North America. Eight main themes were explored in these studies. There w...

United States medical student choice of careers in the primary care disciplines has waned significantly over the past 15 years. A complex array of factors influence this decline, which has had an adverse effect on the quality and cost of medical care in the United States. Recent data suggest that the ratio of primary care physician income to specialty physician income (the income ratio) may be ...

It is believed that the perception that computing is a male domain has discouraged American women to participate in computing fields. Like the U.S., computing is also dominated by men in China. However, unlike the U.S., information technology is ranked the highest compared with other industries in term of career choices for Chinese female university graduates. This study investigates how comput...