The joint manpower initiative by the Department of Health and Social Security and the Joint Consultants Committee provides the latest and perhaps the most hopeful stimulus to solve the problems of medical manpower in the acute hospital services.' It has been recognised for some time that career prospects for junior doctors in the acute medical and surgical specialties have become intolerable.2 ...

The authors use data from the Health and Retirement Study's Earnings Benefit File, which links Health and Retirement Study to Social Security Administration records, to estimate the impact of childhood health on earnings curves between the ages of 25 and 50 years. They also investigate the extent to which diminished educational attainment, earlier onset of chronic health conditions, and labor f...

The research is based on the women's career choices in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.The main focus of to judge perception that women Peshawar hold about different occupations, her choice choosing career, and which extent she influential career. study carried out Pakhtunkhwa, especially Peshawar. Data primary, descriptive statistics are being used questionnaire.Two portion questionnaires developed for stu...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to identify differences in ophthalmology resident candidates and practicing ophthalmologists' career perceptions. A secondary aim was to evaluate specific demographic factors (e.g., gender, ethnicity, career interests, etc.) among residency candidates regarding their career perceptions. METHODS A survey instrument (Critical factors in Career Perception...

Issues confronting doctor-parents include the impact of parenting on career choice, special challenges faced by women doctor-parents, leave entitlements, and the unique strengths and challenges of two-doctor families. Experience from one Canadian doctors' health program suggests that unique themes include communication within doctor-families, insight into doctor-parent dynamics, the relationshi...

Motivational crowding-out theory establishes that the effectiveness of financial incentive schemes, like pay-for-performance, crucially depends on the underlying social preferences of health workers. In this paper we study the extent to which heterogeneity in the strength and structure of social preferences is related to career choices by testing whether preferences vary systematically between ...

The organizations of today are undergoing a metamorphosis. Whether one thinks of it as downsizing, rightsizing, flattening, becoming a learning organization, or simply as transformations into something as yet unknown, no one would challenge that profound changes are occurring worldwide. These changes in the occupational environment have implications for career development in the future. Will th...

OBJECTIVES To report on doctors' reasons, as expressed to our research group, for choosing academic careers and on factors that would make a career in clinical academic medicine more attractive to them. DESIGN Postal, email and web questionnaires. SETTING UK. PARTICIPANTS A total of 6936 UK-trained doctors who graduated in 1996, 1999 and 2000. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Open-ended comments a...

QUESTION What career paths have physiotherapist researchers taken? What should career paths for physiotherapist researchers look like? DESIGN Observational study with questionnaire. PARTICIPANTS Australian physiotherapists who had a completed a Doctor of Philosophy degree by 2006. RESULTS Fifty-six of 87 physiotherapists with a doctorate degree (response rate 64%) completed the questionna...

Network reprogramming allows for over-the-air application updates in sensor networks. We describe the operation of a number of network reprogramming protocols that have emerged for the TinyOS sensor network operating system. We go on to discuss potential security issues that arise from the operation of network reprogramming protocols. We acknowledge support through the NSF CAREER grant CCR-0238...