BACKGROUND Changes to the structure of medical training worldwide require doctors to decide on their career specialty at an increasingly early stage after graduation. We studied trends in career choices for surgery, and the eventual career destinations, of UK graduates who declared an early preference for surgery. METHODS Postal questionnaires were sent, at regular time intervals after qualif...

INTRODUCTION  Student-run free clinics (SRFCs) are a recent popular addition to medical school education, and a subset of studies has looked at the influence of SRFC volunteering on the medical student's career development. The majority of the research done in this area has focused on understanding if these SRFCs produce physicians who are more likely to practice medicine in underserved communi...

So far, the main Arabica coffee breeding programmes in Latin America have focused on selection of varieties adapted to intensive full-sun farming systems. Meanwhile, little attention has been paid specifically shade, which is characteristic agroforestry systems (AFS). Yet specialty sector currently expanding and seeking specific sensory qualities related exotic no programme exists create new fo...

background: owing to the growing importance of medicines in treatment of diseases, as well as their role as alternatives for expensive and often unsafe procedures; economic examination of factors associated with their demand is necessary. hence, this study aimed at exploring factors affecting the demand of specialty medicines.   methods: in this descriptive-analytic study, data was collected fr...

BACKGROUND It is important to inform medical educators and workforce planners in Anaesthesia about early career choices for the specialty, factors that influence them and to elucidate how recent choices of men and women doctors relate to the overall historical trends in the specialty's popularity. METHODS We analysed longitudinal data on career choice, based on self-completed questionnaires, ...

Introduction: The career choice of a medical graduate is often complex process with multiple factors playing part. Neurosurgery in Nepal gradually growing and there huge interest the academia to draw more graduates into neurosurgery. There paucity data regarding from Nepal. aim this study was determine potential barriers facilitators for choosing future as neurosurgeon. Methods: A descriptive c...

The nature of experience during the medical study at university may play an essential role in choosing specialty. Background: aim this is to determine effect national universities general and on interns' career choice, taking into consideration gender difference. Furthermore, find out when educate their students about different specialties. Methods: This was a cross-sectional that included 234 ...

It is intuitively true that the most just ways of reducing health care costs are to reduce unnecessary tests and interventions and improve the efficiency of care. Neither of these imperils outcomes (and may improve many) nor involves restricting care (and developing efficient care may require expansion of overall care). The first activity comes under the aegis of reducing waste, and the second,...

Background In several countries, studies have shown that fewer medical students choose rheumatology as specialty. Morocco no study has yet focused on this subject. Objectives The aim of our is to assess the attractiveness a specialty among Moroccan students, recently graduates and interns, analyze factors may be associated with it. Methods An online survey was sent 297 who had started their hos...