[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Gender in Physics.] The dearth of women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields has been lamented by scholars, administrators, policymakers, and the general public for decades, and the STEM gender gap is particularly pronounced in physics. While previous research has demonstrated that this gap is largely attributable to a lack...

Purpose The authors sought to identify variables associated with MD-PhD program graduates' academic medicine careers. Methods We analyzed data for a national cohort of MD-PhD program graduates from 2000 to 2005, using multivariable logistic regression to identify independent predictors of full-time academic medicine faculty appointment through 2013. Results Of 1,860 MD-PhD program graduates in ...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES This paper reports on non-mature general nursing students' perceptions of nursing as a career prior to their first clinical placement. BACKGROUND It is widely recognised that the first clinical practice experience serves a dual role, that of validating students' choice of career and shaping their perceptions of nursing. This study sought to explore 23 first year non-mature...

career aspirations are career paths which provide employees' career lives with maintenance, order and meaning. these aspirations are resources of self- knowledge and stability in career. researches showed that career aspirations can influence the improvement of variables related to human resource management including organizational socialization which plays a vital role in the initial stag...

objectives: the current study aimed at investigating the relationship between identity status and career maturity among adolescents with visual disorders, as compared to normal adolescents. methods: the study had two populations: all normal high school students in tehran city (including boys and girls) and all visually-disabled high school students in tehran (including boys and girls). the samp...

INTRODUCTION There is abundant evidence that rural origin is an influence on rural career choice. Rural origin is widely used to select students to be supported into programs designed to address the rural medical workforce shortage. What is not as clear is how many years of rural upbringing are required to have a maximal effect on rural career choice. Neither is the place of having a sense of r...

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...

OBJECTIVE To report on doctors' early choices of specialty at selected intervals after qualification, and eventual career destinations. DESIGN Questionnaire surveys. SETTING United Kingdom. PARTICIPANTS Total of 15 759 doctors who qualified in 1974, 1977, 1983, 1993, and 1996, and their career destinations 10 years after graduation. RESULTS 15 759 doctors were surveyed one and three yea...

Recruitment to occupational therapy has long been of concern and studies, principally from North America, have identified the factors influencing career choice so that the shortfall of applicants may be addressed. Studies at Brunel University in London have provided United Kingdom data, with the most recent study (Craik and Zaccaria 2003) summarising the views of 444 first-year students. This f...