Title: Few Gender Differences in Swedish Medical Students' Specialty Preferences a Study of Motivational Factors and Their Impact on Last-year Students' Specialty Preferences
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Few gender differences in specialty preferences and motivational factors: a cross-sectional Swedish study on last-year medical students
BACKGROUND Today, women constitute about half of medical students in several Western societies, yet women physicians are still underrepresented in surgical specialties and clustered in other branches of medicine. Gender segregation in specialty preference has been found already in medical school. It is important to study the career preferences of our future physicians, as they will influence th...
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