Specialty preferences of physicians and medical students

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...

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...

Specialty preferences among medical students in a Kenyan university

BACKGROUND Specialty distribution in Kenya continues to exhibit gender disparities despite the increasing number of female medical students graduating each year. This study aimed at assessing specialty preferences and factors influencing these choices among male and female medical students in Kenya. METHODS Four hundred and fifty medical students, from first to fifth year of study at the Univ...

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

How do medical students view the work life of primary care and specialty physicians?

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Student perceptions of day-to-day physician work life, and relationships between these perceptions and specialty choices, have not been quantitatively explored. The study's purposes were to measure student perceptions of primary care and specialist physician work life, including administrative burden, time pressures, autonomy, and relationships with patients, to determ...