Medical careers in pathology, 1977.

Role of self-instruction and self-testing in teaching pathology.

Careers of medical women.

In autumn 1977 91% of the women who had graduated from United Kingdom medical schools in 1949-51 (early cohort) and 1965 (late cohort) were practising medicine. Over the first 12 years after qualification the late cohort was marginally more active in medicine and had more members in career and training posts than the early cohort. On the survey date 1 October 1977 (26-28 years after qualificati...

The Edinburgh intercalated honours BSc in pathology: evaluation of selection methods, undergraduate performance, and postgraduate career.

In a study of 60 students who entered the intercalated honours BSc course in pathology at the University of Edinburgh over 10 years the conventional criteria of academic excellence and motivation were shown to be appropriate for the selection of honours students. When compared with classmates who did not take the intercalated year but who had shown similar high academic ability in the preclinic...

Ten Years on

The careers of doctors qualifying in the United Kingdom ?ver the decade 1974 to 1983 are being studied by a Qroup now based in Oxford (1). As part of the study, the doctors who graduated from Bristol in 1976 were surveyed about career preferences during their preregistration year (2), but unlike those qualifying in 1974, 1977, 1980 and 1983 they are not being followed to assess career progress....

Federal civil-service annuitants and social security, December 1975.

This article examines personal and work-related characteristics of a sample of the nearly 1 million Federal civil-service retirees who were receiving annuities based on their own wage records as of December 31, 1975. Employment patterns and subsequent annuities in civil-service careers have been related to corresponding experience in jobs covered under the old-age, survivors, disability, and he...