BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to examine factors used by medical students to select a primary care specialty that may differentiate students who choose the primary care specialties of family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, and combined internal medicine-pediatrics. METHODS A questionnaire was sent to all family physicians and an equal number of other primary care...

BACKGROUND In recent years there has been a growing appreciation of the issues of career preference in medicine as it may affect student learning and academic performance. However, no such studies have been undertaken in medical schools in Jordan. Therefore, we carried out this study to investigate the career preferences of medical students at Jordan University of Science and Technology and det...

PURPOSE The purpose of this research was to determine the practice trends of dental hygiene baccalaureate degree recipients who participated in a specialty track. METHODS A survey was developed, pilot tested, revised, and mailed to a sample of 265 dental hygienists who graduated from the baccalaureate degree dental hygiene program at University of North Carolina (UNC)-Chapel Hill School of De...

The higher vocational and professional specialty of “construction management” of China begun late, and the talent training mode of various colleges are different, especially the analysis to the specialty ability modules on the higher vocational and professional layer is not mature. In this article, combining with the practice of Manjing Institute of Industry Technology, we analyze and study the...

The attainment of specialty nursing certification can be beneficial for nurses, patients, and the healthcare organization alike. Barriers may prevent nurses from seeking specialty certification, which may impede healthcare organizations from increasing certification rates among nursing staff. The purpose of this article is to share the process and outcomes of 1 medical center's multimodal plan ...

PURPOSE Care coordination is increasingly recognized as a necessary element of high-quality, patient-centered care. This study investigated (1) the association between care coordination and continuity of primary care, and (2) differences in this association by level of specialty care use. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study of Medicare enrollees with select chronic conditions in an i...

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of unmet needs for routine and specialty care among children with special health care needs (CSHCN) and to identify factors associated with the likelihood of having unmet need for medical care. METHODS Data come from the respondents for 38 866 children interviewed for the National Survey of Children With Special Health Care Needs. Bivariate analyses were use...

Subjects: 84,182 patients admitted to specialty and general ICUs with an admitting diagnosis or procedure of acute coronary syndrome, ischemic stroke, intracranial hemorrhage, pneumonia, abdominal surgery, or coronaryartery bypass graft surgery. ICU type was determined by a local data coordinator at each site. Patients were classified by admission to a general ICU, a diagnosis-appropriate (“ide...

BACKGROUND In Japan, the absolute deficiency of doctors and maldistribution of doctors by specialty is a significant problem in the Japanese health care system. The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors contributing to specialty preference in career choice among Japanese medical students. METHODS A total of 368 medical students completed the survey giving an 88.2 % response rat...

PURPOSE Although there is no supporting evidence, there is a perception that the public is unfamiliar with what an oral and maxillofacial surgeon does. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the knowledge of persons about the type of treatment rendered by 12 different specialties and to determine if such unfamiliarity is true only for oral and maxillofacial surgery or whether it occurs with ...