Specialty choice during the clinical years

Specialty Choice Among Physicians

[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...

Specialty choice in occupational therapy.

The shortage of occupational therapists specializing in mental health led to a survey of graduates from nine occupational therapy schools in the New York metropolitan area to determine the factors affecting their specialty choice. The variables examined were derived from a literature review of the specialty choice of psychiatry among medical students. They included personality, academic, clinic...

Physician Income Expectations and Specialty Choice

In spite of the important role of income expectations in economics, economists know little about how people actually form these expectations. We use a unique data set that contains the explicit income expectations of medical students over a 25-year time period to examine how students form income expectations. We examine whether students condition their expectations on their own ability, contemp...

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 ...