During the apartheid years in South Africa, career guidance amongst disadvantaged learners was largely absent and, for many, career choices were limited and governed by politics. Despite South Africa having celebrated 20 years of democracy, this situation has improved only slightly. Therefore, the aims of the study were to determine the factors that influenced students’ career choice and to asc...

Women are under-represented in academic medicine. We reviewed the empirical evidence focusing on the reasons for women's choice or rejection of careers in academic medicine. Using a systematic search, we identified 52 studies published between 1985, and 2015. More than half had methodological limitations and most were from North America. Eight main themes were explored in these studies. There w...

United States medical student choice of careers in the primary care disciplines has waned significantly over the past 15 years. A complex array of factors influence this decline, which has had an adverse effect on the quality and cost of medical care in the United States. Recent data suggest that the ratio of primary care physician income to specialty physician income (the income ratio) may be ...

It is believed that the perception that computing is a male domain has discouraged American women to participate in computing fields. Like the U.S., computing is also dominated by men in China. However, unlike the U.S., information technology is ranked the highest compared with other industries in term of career choices for Chinese female university graduates. This study investigates how comput...

BACKGROUND Medical students develop interest in a specialty career during medical school based on knowledge and clinical experience of different specialties. How valid this knowledge is and how this knowledge relates to the development of preference for a specialty is not known. We studied their "subjective" knowledge of a specialty (students' reported knowledge) with "objective" knowledge of i...

This paper contributes to a growing body of research that finds a surprising degree of structure in the exchange networks that comprise a market. Standard neoclassical theory depicts the market as fluid system with little repeated exchange between pairs of agents. And while economists have recently begun to pay greater attention to more restricted networks of exchange, such networks are typical...

This multinational survey investigated the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and perceived stress (PS) in seven countries. First-year dental undergraduates attending a dental school in England, Greece, Romania, South Africa, Australia, and the United States and three schools in Malaysia were invited to complete a set of questionnaires on age, gender, academic background, satisfac...

Background: The COVID-19 epidemic is affecting the work of people around world including students who have to graduate and decide in choosing a civil servant career. aim study: explore motivating factors influencing decision for 4th year Chiang Mai University enter service during COVID era. Materials Methods: This study was conducted among fourth-year at University. sample this consisted 362 pe...

The concept of Flexicurity has been receiving much attention as the European social model. One of the most important concepts within the flexicurity approach is employment security, the security of having secure and continuous employment career, which may entail changing employers and jobs. How do European individuals subjectively perceive their employment security? In addition, which individua...