Career Patterns in Medicine

Career Patterns and Career Concerns

This paper develops a model of career concerns. As in Holmström (1999), a worker’s productive abilities are revealed over time through output, and wages are based on expected output, and so on assessed ability. Specifically, work increases the probability that a skilled worker achieves an observable breakthrough. It is shown that effort at different times are strategic substitutes. As as result...

PATHOLOGY: A Career in Medicine

A Career in Addiction Medicine


Why choose a career in geriatric medicine?

The demands of acute medicine compounded by the dramatic effects of the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) are widely believed to be detrimental to the quality of specialty training and hence may adversely affect recruitment to the specialty. Most obviously, the majority of SpRs in geriatric medicine (and other specialties involved in emergency medicine) have been forced into partial or com...

A career in public health medicine.