Studentsʼ career plans and the medical profession

Motivation towards medical career choice and future career plans of Polish medical students

This longitudinal study aimed at investigating Polish medical students' career choice motivation, factors influencing specialty choices, professional plans and expectations. The same cohort of students responded to the same questionnaire, at the end of Year 1 and Year 6. The Chi-square, Mann-Whitney U tests and logistic regression were used in analyses. The results showed that altruistic and sc...

Career plans of final-year medical students in South Africa.

More than half (55%) of the 743 students of South African nationality planned to work abroad, either for a year or two (73%) or more (20%). The remaining 7% intended to relocate permanently. Between 47% (of 876 students) and 59% (of 700 who responded to the question) planned to work for a time in rural areas after specialising. Twice as many planned to work for most of their careers in the priv...

Greed and the medical profession.

O rganised medicine is not giving proper attention to the disturbing presence in the profession of a universal human trait: greed. Perhaps doctors' greed is less of a problem in Britain where an estimated 70% of the doctors are generalists, and reimbursement in the main is controlled by the national health system. Not so in the United States where 70% of doctors are specialists and an open heal...

Homoeopathy and the medical profession

PHILLIP A. NICHOLLS, Homoeopathy and the medical profession, Beckenham, Croom Helm, 1988, 8vo, pp. 298, £27.50. There are several useful historical accounts of homoeopathy in America, but very little has been published on the British story. Nicholls's book will thus become a stock item for courses on medicine in nineteenthand twentieth-century Britain. After discussing the relation between the ...

Evidence, the law and the medical profession.