Sex differences in medical specialty preferences

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....

Empathy in Iranian medical students: A comparison by age, gender, academic performance and specialty preferences

Empathy is an important element of physician-patient communication. Empathy is linked to a number of attributes such as patient treatment compliance and satisfaction, better history taking and physical examination and therefore achieving better clinical outcomes. Previous research indicates that self-reported empathy among medical students declines during the course of their medical education a...

Medical specialty prestige and lifestyle preferences for medical students.

In the context of doctor shortages and mal-distributions in many Western countries, prestige and lifestyle friendliness have emerged as significant factors for medical students when they choose a medical specialty. In this study, we surveyed two samples of Australian medical students and had them rank 19 medical specialties for prestige (N = 530) and lifestyle friendliness (N = 644). The presti...

Sex Differences in Taste Preferences in Humans

This critical literature investigates differences in taste preferences and acceptability between male and female humans. There is evidence for sex differences in sweet, salt, sour, and bitter tastes, but research in umami and fat tastes have not yet shown differences. Males tend to report higher hedonic ratings for sweet foods than do women, but the difference is not significant. Female sex hor...

Title: Few Gender Differences in Swedish Medical Students' Specialty Preferences a Study of Motivational Factors and Their Impact on Last-year Students' Specialty Preferences