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 ...

To describe the factors that influence general practitioners' choice of hospital when referring patients for elective surgery in three specialties, a postal questionnaire was distributed in January 1991 to 449 doctors who had referred patients to one of six hospitals in the North Western Regional Health Authority. Responses were received from 260 general practitioners (58%). Of the respondents ...

BACKGROUND Choosing a medical specialty is a poorly understood process. Although studies conducted around the world have attempted to identify the factors that affect medical students' choice of specialty, data is scarce on the factors that influence the choice of specialty of Saudi Arabian medical students, in particular those planning a career in emergency medicine (EM). In this study, we inv...

OBJECTIVES To report the self-assessed views of a cohort of medical graduates about the impact of having (or wanting to have) children on their specialty choice and the extent to which their employer was supportive of doctors with children. SETTING United Kingdom (UK). PARTICIPANTS UK medical graduates of 2002 surveyed by post and email in 2014. RESULTS The response rate was 64.2% (2057/3...

BACKGROUND Cardiology is one of the most popular of the hospital medical specialties in the UK. It is also a highly competitive specialty in respect of the availability of higher specialty training posts. Our aims are to describe doctors' early intentions about seeking careers in cardiology, to report on when decisions about seeking a career in cardiology are made, to compare differences betwee...

Article history: Received 31 August 2010 Available online 16 September 2010 Research rarely considers the combined influence of personality traits and values in predicting behavioral outcomes.We aimed to advance a germinal line of inquiry that addresses this gap by separately and simultaneously examining personality traits and physician work values to predict medical specialty choice. First-yea...