State retention of medical school graduates

Medical school hotline: medical school affects the career location of pediatric resident graduates.

According to the Hawaiʻi Physician Workforce Assessment Project, Hawaiʻi currently has a physician shortage of 600, with an impending shortage of up to 1,600 physicians by the year 2020. A way to offset this growing situation is by supporting University of Hawaiʻi residency programs to train future physicians. To better understand the contributions that these residency programs make to the comm...

Characteristics of medical school graduates who underwent problem-based learning.

INTRODUCTION In this study, we compared the choice of medical specialty and subspecialty interest among problem-based-learning (PBL) graduates and non-PBL graduates. MATERIALS AND METHODS Questionnaires were mailed to a total of 1398 female doctors who graduated from Tokyo Women's Medical University (TWMU) between 1989 and 2003. The response rate was over 30%, giving 248 respondents who had u...

Medical school graduates entering family medicine: increasing the overall number.

Trends in career choice by US medical school graduates.

CONTEXT Trends in career choice among specialties have varied greatly. Most notable is the recent decrease in the percentage of US medical student graduates choosing a primary care career, which has important implications for the US physician workforce. OBJECTIVE To review temporal trends in career choice by graduates of allopathic US medical schools, focusing on US medical doctors entering r...

Mostar University Medical School, Bosnia and Herzegovina: first graduates.