On entering the profession

Women Entering the Legal Profession

International medical graduates' perceptions of entering the profession in Norway.

BACKGROUND There is little knowledge available about how it feels for an international medical graduate arriving in Norway. We have investigated how the initial period as an employee of the Norwegian health services is perceived. MATERIAL AND METHOD We conducted semi-structured interviews with 16 international medical graduates who had foreign training and citizenship. They had worked as doct...

Are the More Academically Able Agriculture Teacher Candidates Not Entering or Remaining in the Teaching Profession?

The quality of education provided by public schools in America has been under considerable scrutiny in recent years. In his report to the public entitled, A Nation at &&, Gardner (1983) suggested that today’s beginning teachers are not as well qualified as those who previously entered teaching. Studies by Schlecty and Vance (1981) and Weaver (1984) suggested that the academic ability and/or qua...

Students from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups entering the dental hygiene profession.

African American, Hispanic/Latina, and American Indian/Alaska Native persons are markedly underrepresented racial and ethnic groups (UREG) in the dental hygiene profession. The purpose of this study was to survey UREG dental hygiene students to determine their perceptions of the barriers and facilitators that influenced their decision to enter the dental hygiene profession. Participants were ei...

Perspectives on the profession.

In his presidential address to the Southwestern Surgical Congress, he examines surgery as a profession from three different perspectives: his experience as a patient, a surgeon, and a photographer. He uses photography to illustrate the importance of perspective and illumination. He respectfully suggests that we should consciously choose to reframe the profession from a different perspective tha...