The joint manpower initiative by the Department of Health and Social Security and the Joint Consultants Committee provides the latest and perhaps the most hopeful stimulus to solve the problems of medical manpower in the acute hospital services.' It has been recognised for some time that career prospects for junior doctors in the acute medical and surgical specialties have become intolerable.2 ...

INTRODUCTION Young physicians have many recruitment barriers in Iran. Therefore, for planning purpose, assessment of the attitudes of medical intern students towards their future career is important. METHODS This cross-sectional study assessed the view points of 300 medical students through a self administered questionnaire. Data were analyzed using SPSS software with P value < 0.05. RES...

The study examined the factors that influence career choice in accounting among Nigerian university students. Authors in the field of education and behavioural science tend to attribute different factors that influence career choice among individuals. Parental influence, self – desire, better pay, prestige and future prospects were found to be the major influencial factors in career choices amo...

BACKGROUND The stress associated with the physician's work is generally acknowledged and is related to well-being and life satisfaction. The presented study was designed to extract the role of coping strategies in identifying differentiated styles of success in a medical career during medical education. METHODS The participants were examined when they applied to medical school and each subseq...

The Discover Engineering Summer Camp, launched in 1991, is a summer day camp that targets students in grades 10 to 12. According to the data from the 2001 camp, 98% of the participants indicated that the camp increased their knowledge about engineering, and 94% indicated that the camp increased their interest in considering engineering as a career option. This paper discusses activities that ha...

During the apartheid years in South Africa, career guidance amongst disadvantaged learners was largely absent and, for many, career choices were limited and governed by politics. Despite South Africa having celebrated 20 years of democracy, this situation has improved only slightly. Therefore, the aims of the study were to determine the factors that influenced students’ career choice and to asc...

After having made decisions about college, medical school, and specialty training, some residents may delay consideration of their future career in pediatrics. Others, having decided what path they will pursue, are not clear as to what steps need to be taken to ensure that they approach their choice armed with the most appropriate and accurate information. Residents seek career choice informati...

Occupational decisionmaking is an ongoing concern with university students and knowing what developmental tasks facilitate the process can make this particular problemsolving task easier. The present study explored the connection between vocational self-concepts, ego-identity and career indecision. Participants (N=202) were university students enrolled in an Introductory Psychology class. Corre...

We applaud Dr Pane and colleagues for continuing to investigate the question of career satisfaction for pediatric hospitalists. The publication of these fi ndings is timely as we discuss the future of pediatric hospital medicine as a subspecialty. How we train, recruit, and nurture future pediatric hospitalists will determine the success of our fi eld, and career satisfaction is a key issue in ...

Issues confronting doctor-parents include the impact of parenting on career choice, special challenges faced by women doctor-parents, leave entitlements, and the unique strengths and challenges of two-doctor families. Experience from one Canadian doctors' health program suggests that unique themes include communication within doctor-families, insight into doctor-parent dynamics, the relationshi...