Does applicant specialty ambition influence medical school choice?

[Motives for choice of specialty during and after medical school].

BACKGROUND The basis for preference and choice of specialty is a complicated mixture of individual interests and job opportunities. We wanted to investigate the possible explanations for such preferences and choices. MATERIAL AND METHOD Two groups of Norwegian doctors, 421 who entered medical school in 1993 and 631 who completed medical school in 1993 and 1994, received four questionnaires be...

The influence of controllable lifestyle on medical student specialty choice.

Social dominance theory and medical specialty choice.

Understanding how medical students select their specialty is a fundamental issue for public health and educational policy makers. One of the factors that students take into account is a specialty's prestige which hinges partly on its focus on technique rather than whole person. We examine the potential of a psychological framework, social dominance theory, to explain why some students, and not ...

What factors influence UK medical students’ choice of foundation school?

BACKGROUND We aimed to identify the factors influencing UK medical student applicants' choice of foundation school. We also explored the factors that doctors currently approaching the end of their 2-year program believe should be considered. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted during the 2013-2014 academic year. An online questionnaire was distributed to 2092 final-year medical stud...

Medical specialty preferences in early medical school training in Canada

Objectives To understand what medical students consider when choosing their specialty, prior to significant clinical exposure to develop strategies to provide adequate career counseling. Methods A cross-sectional study was performed by distributing optional questionnaires to 165 first-year medical students at the University of Ottawa in their first month of training with a sample yield of 54....