BACKGROUND With new resident duty-hour regulations, resident work schedules have progressively transitioned towards shift-based systems, sometimes resulting in increased team fragmentation. We hypothesized that exposure to shift-based schedules and subsequent team fragmentation would negatively affect medical student experiences during their third-year internal medicine clerkship. DESIGN As p...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES To develop a standardized framework to discuss rural background, a review of the literature to identify studies regarding the association of rural background with primary care and/or rural health practice was conducted. The various definitions of rural background were collated and from this data a framework for the conceptualization of rural background is proposed. M...

PURPOSE Health care studies are usually considered to be complex, demanding and time consuming. The right motivation toward choosing a career in the health field is of utmost importance for the successful completion of studies. The aim of this study was to gain insight into the factors motivating students at the School of Dental Medicine University of Zagreb, Croatia and, also, to examine their...

OBJECTIVE To assess medical students' interest in a career in pediatrics following their categorical pediatric clerkship. DESIGN Satisfaction questionnaire to 704 third-year clerks in 5 university medical schools following the pediatric clerkship. METHODS Analysis of the influence of the community office-based experience compared with the inpatient experience, and examination aspects of the...

The goal of this interpretive research study was to articulate the lived experience of students in an accelerated master's of nursing entry program learning the practice of nursing within a clinical setting. Specific questions included: How did previous life experiences, education, and career choices influence the experience of second-degree students? What were the potential effects on learning...

AIMS To review whether current New Zealand (NZ) medical student selection policies are likely to result in specialists prepared to work in areas of greatest health need in the future. METHOD This paper describes approaches used to select medical students, with some details about NZ medical student cohorts. It then discusses the evidence linking selection and career choice. RESULTS AND CONCL...

AIM To investigate the attractiveness to potential nursing staff of the NHS as an employer. METHOD Individual and group interviews were conducted with school pupils, mature students, nursing students, healthcare assistants, agency nurses and independent sector nurses. RESULTS Eighty one people participated in the qualitative stage of the study. Analysis of the interview transcripts indicate...

This study used social cognitive career theory (Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994), as a framework to investigate predictors of career choice actions, operationalised as career planning and career exploration. The model was tested cross-sectionally and longitudinally with 631 high school students enrolled in Grades 10-12. Students completed measures of self-efficacy, outcome expectations, goals, sup...

OBJECTIVE Undergraduate medical students have ingrained and often negative attitudes towards psychiatry as a field and as a career. This in turn has affected recruitment of graduate medical students into the specialty. Little is known about the impact of psychiatry rotations during undergraduate medical training on students' attitudes about psychiatry and eventual specialty choice in developing...

UNLABELLED Concerns about recruiting physicians into academic careers is an international issue. A qualitative study with United States (US) women physicians revealed insights into how, when, and why physicians choose an academic career in medicine. The current study explored international women physicians' perspectives on their career choice of academic medicine and determined if different the...