Background: Medical students undergo a complex process as student to make career decision and pursue further specialization. This study explores the factors that influence choices of two genders studying in final year medicine at Omdurman Islamic University.Methods: institution-based cross-sectional was conducted on 194 male female fifth-year medical University. The questionnaire contains 15 mu...

PURPOSE Deciding on a future career path or choosing a career specialty is an important academic decision for medical students. The purpose of this study is to develop a career coaching model for medical students. METHODS This research was carried out in three steps. The first step was systematic review of previous studies. The second step was a need assessment of medical students. The third ...

As part of an ongoing effort to help physicians curtail the practice of ordering unnecessary tests and procedures, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) today released its second Choosing Wisely list of recommendations. For this extension of the original American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation initiative, which launched in April 2012, the Academy joined 16 other medical specia...

BACKGROUND There is a need to increase the recruitment to psychiatry in France. Our aim in this study was to compare factors influencing career choice between French medical students considering and not considering psychiatry as a specialty. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Quantitative cross-sectional online survey on 145 French students in their last year of medical school. RESULTS 22.7% of our sampl...

The Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality demonstrated that seven hospitals, six multi-specialty physician groups, four health plans and nine employers from across the state can agree upon goals and work collaboratively to achieve them. Together they created: A public/private partnership to define common measures of health care quality that make sense to purchasers/consumers. A report ...

Little work, however, has been done in this field in Northern Ireland. One of the main functions of the Northern Ireland Council for Postgraduate Medical Education is to provide a careers information and advisory service for recent graduates. This service is limited by a lack of basic information about the factors which influence young doctors in choosing a specialty and deciding in which part ...

PURPOSE Despite recent efforts to understand the complex process of physician career development, the medical education community has a poor understanding of why, how, and when women physicians embark on careers in academic medicine. METHOD In 2010, the authors phone-interviewed women physicians in academic medicine regarding why, how, and when they chose academic medicine careers. Project in...

background: fast foods consumption among students has increased. this study assessed the factors associated with fast foods consumption in adolescents in the city of sanandaj, iran. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 553 high-school students studying in the city of sanandaj were randomly selected. data were collected using questionnaires proved to be valid and reliable. data were analyzed ...