AIM To explore the specialty preferences and the factors influencing them among pre-clerkship (second-year and third-year) medical students at Alfaisal University-College of Medicine, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. METHODS An online, anonymous, cross-sectional, self-rating survey was administered. The survey explored socio-demographical data, specialty preferences and the factors influencing such pref...

Keiko Nagahara1, 2*, Yuki Harada3*, Tohru Futami3, Masaki Takagi1, 4, Gen Nishimura5, and Yukihiro Hasegawa1 1Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Tokyo Metropolitan Children’s Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan 2Department of Pediatrics, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan 3Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Shiga Medical Center for Children, Shiga, Japan 4Department of Pediatric...

1 Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Pediatric Unit, Program of Endocrinology, University of Bologna, Italy 2 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Bologna, Italy 3 Adolescent Medicine, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Pediatrics, University Hospital, Pisa, Italy 4Clinical Psychology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, University of Bologna, Italy 5 Pediatric Surg...

1Department of pediatrics, Chonnam National University Medical School and Hospital, Republic of Korea 2College of Veterinary Medicine, Chonbuk National University, Republic of Korea 3National Institute of Animal Science, Republic of Korea 4Department of Pediatrics, KS hospital, Republic of Korea 5Institute of Animal Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Republic of Korea 6Department of Thor...

Affiliations Departments of Virology, Pediatrics and Hematology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences and Medical School, Nagoya, Division of Pediatric Oncology, Fukushima Medical University Cancer Center, Fukushima, Department of Pediatrics, Osaka Medical Center and...

Affiliations: Department of Pediatrics, Section of Hematology-Oncology, Texas Children’s Cancer Center, and Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas77030, USA Division of Pediatric Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas77030, USA Department of Pathology, section of Pediatric Pathology, Texas Children's Ho...

INTRODUCTION The selection of a medical specialty has been associated with multiple factors, such as personal preferences, academic exposure, motivational factors and sociodemographic factors, such as gender. The number of women in the medical field has increased in recent years. In Latin America, we have not found any studies that explore this relationship. OBJECTIVE To determine whether the...

Pediatricians play an important role in the perioperative care of hospitalized children after tonsillectomy and are often called upon to manage posttonsillectomy problems in the outpatient setting. The tonsillectomy operation has changed in recent years. More children are operated upon for sleep disordered breathing and fewer for recurrent pharyngitis. New instruments now permit less invasive s...