BACKGROUND The motivational and other factors used by medical students in making their career choices for specific medical specialities have been looked at in a number of studies in the literature. There are however few studies that assess the generic factors which make medicine itself of interest to medical students and to potential medical students. This study describes a novel questionnaire ...

This study incorporated both quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the perception of career barriers by hard-of-hearing high school students being educated in regular classes with itinerant teacher support. Sixty-five students in Years 10, 11, and 12 completed a questionnaire about potential general and hearing-related barriers, and 12 of these respondents were subsequently interviewe...

This study investigated the expressed attitudes of deaf people in India toward career choices for deaf and hearing people. Deaf adults from Pune, India rated the suitability of 12 professions for deaf and hearing people and gave written comments on the suitability of any other professions they could list. The results, in general, were consistent with those of other studies in the United States,...

concept for students and those training for a career in medicine. For the mentor, the experience can be highly rewarding, and he or she must appreciate the potential value and impact the experience may have on the mentee. Many students have selected or diverted interest from specialties based on interaction with a single mentor who has had a positive, or possibly negative influence in the case ...

In this issue of Academic Medicine, Wolf et al explore the purposes and value of the senior year of medical school as viewed by graduating students at their institution. Using data from student focus groups and questionnaires, they report that students all found there to be significant value in but identified different purposes for the fourth year. The authors of this commentary believe that st...

A questionnaire addressing factors that affect career choices by pediatric dentistry advanced education students was mailed to 52 training programs. Two hundred and thirty-two completed surveys from 45 responding programs were returned. The responses were analyzed for women and men and citizens and noncitizens. Concern for spouse career opportunities affected women's personal career decisions s...

INTRODUCTION The Rural and Remote Area Placement Program (RRAPP) began in April 2000 to provide a rural community practice training term for junior doctors and to increase the opportunities for junior doctors to experience training outside the hospital setting. Recent research into the community-based training and experience for junior doctors in Australia suggests that such experience contribu...

OBJECTIVE To determine the timing of and key factors in resident decision making to pursue either a career in general pediatrics or subspecialty training. DESIGN We used a 10-item fixed-choice questionnaire that focused on exploring how and when pediatric residents make career choices. SETTING The survey was administered to all categorical pediatric residents in the United States and Canada...

OBJECTIVES To report a qualitative study of themes doctors raised spontaneously, in a large-scale prospective cohort study covering many aspects of their medical careers, when referring to their own chronic illness or disability. DESIGN Questionnaire survey. SETTING UK. PARTICIPANTS Questionnaires were sent one, five and 10 years after graduation to 44,539 doctors who qualified between 19...

BACKGROUND Recruitment of adequate numbers of doctors to psychiatry is difficult. AIMS To report on career choice for psychiatry, comparing intending psychiatrists with doctors who chose other clinical careers. METHOD Questionnaire studies of all newly qualified doctors from all UK medical schools in 12 qualification years between 1974 and 2009 (33 974 respondent doctors). RESULTS One, th...