BACKGROUND Following implementation of Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) in the UK, potential radiology trainees must decide on their career and apply sooner than ever before. We aimed to determine whether current trainees were sufficiently informed to make an earlier career decision by comparing the early radiology experiences of Traditional and Foundation Trainees. METHODS 344 radiology tra...

In today's dynamic and uncertain career context, values play an important role for career choice and lifelong career self-management. Values are desirable goals that are sought by individuals to satisfy their needs and are important for understanding career orientations in terms of protean and boundaryless career orientations and career anchors. However, how career orientations or career anchor...

over the last de cades of the twentieth century. Time and again, newspaper headlines have lamented what the New York Times called the “downsizing of America”:1 wage freezes and massive layoff s; closed factories and jobs moved abroad; permanent employees replaced by contingent workers. Wages stagnated and access to benefi ts declined. Th e possibility of lifetime employment was replaced with th...