OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of environmental factors on emergency medicine (EM) resident career choice. METHODS Program directors of all U.S. EM residencies were surveyed in November 1997. A 22-item questionnaire assessed resources allocated to research, fellowship availability, academic productivity of faculty and residents, and career choices of residency graduates. RESULTS The respo...

BACKGROUND Labour market policy (LMP) and its implementation have undergone rapid change internationally in the last three decades with a continued trend towards active LMP. In Ireland however, this shift has been more recent with ongoing reforms since 2012 and a concomitant move toward active labour market 'work-first' policy design (i.e. whereby unemployed people are compulsorily required to ...

The human dynamics of relocation , meanwhile, are more complex than in the past. With the prevalence of two-career families, relocation often affects not one but two careers. Recognizing the difficulty of relocating two-career couples, employers may consider single job candidates better suited for relocation. This myth, however, is rapidly exploding. Many single people now are reluctant to leav...

Although women have reached parity at the training level in the biological sciences and medicine, they are still significantly underrepresented in the professoriate and in mid- and senior-level life science positions. Considerable effort has been devoted by individuals and organizations across science sectors to understanding this disparity and to developing interventions in support of women's ...

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...

introduction: several factors affect the academic performance of college students and parenting style is one significant factor. the current study has been done with the purpose of investigating the relationship between parenting styles, academic achievement and career path of students at shiraz university of medical sciences. methods: this is a correlation study carried out at shiraz universit...

PURPOSE To explore aspects of mentoring that might influence medical faculty career satisfaction and to discover whether there are gender differences. METHOD In 2010-2011, the authors surveyed 1,708 clinician-researchers who received (in 2006-2009) National Institutes of Health K08 and K23 awards, which provided mentoring for career development. The authors compared, by gender, the developmen...

Objective. Building a successful career in academic medicine is challenging. The purpose of this study was to survey a cohort of early-career faculty regarding their perceptions of resources available to them to support their clinical, teaching, and scholarly pursuits. Methods. An online questionnaire was emailed via SurveyMonkey to 22 early-career faculty members at the Pediatric Mental Health...