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Association Between Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Medical Specialties and Residency Application Rates

JAMA Network Open, 2022
Max Jordan Nguemeni Tiako, Nora Osman
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Factors influencing student’s specialty choices in Lomé faculty of medicine (Togo)

BMC Medical Education, 2021
Background The choice of specialty in medicine is an important decision for the individual, but also for health system. This choice combined personals reasons, professional desires and needs of the health system.
Julienne Noude Teclessou, Aminou Dabouda, Sefako Akakpo, Panawe Kassang, Bayaki Saka, Koussake Kombate, Palokinam Pitche   +6 more
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Negative effects on medical students’ scores for clinical performance during the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan: a comparative study [PDF]

Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions, 2023
Purpose Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has heavily impacted medical clinical education in Taiwan. Medical curricula have been altered to minimize exposure and limit transmission.
Eunice Jia-Shiow Yuan, Shiau-Shian Huang, Chia-An Hsu, Jiing-Feng Lirng, Tzu-Hao Li, Chia-Chang Huang, Ying-Ying Yang, Chung-Pin Li, Chen-Huan Chen   +8 more
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Relationship between personality traits and choosing a medical specialty

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2015
The recent imbalance in the labor market structure of medical specialists can cause problems in access to care, and result in lower quality and increased costs of medical care.
Ji-Tseng Fang, Shu-Chung Lii
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Diversity of the physician workforce: Specialty choice decisions during medical school.

PLoS ONE, 2021
BackgroundDespite efforts to increase the overall diversity of the medical student body, some medical specialties have a less diverse applicant pool based on both gender and race than would be expected based on medical graduate demographics.ObjectivesTo ...
John Burkhardt, Stephen DesJardins, Larry Gruppen   +2 more
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Defining competence profiles of different medical specialties with the requirement-tracking questionnaire – a pilot study to provide a framework for medial students’ choice of postgraduate training

BMC Medical Education, 2021
Background The medical specialties are characterised by a great diversity in their daily work which requires different sets of competences. A requirement analysis would help to establish competence profiles of the different medical specialities.
Elena Zelesniack, Viktor Oubaid, Sigrid Harendza   +2 more
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Where Are the Women in Radiation Oncology? A Cross-Sectional Multi-Specialty Comparative Analysis

Advances in Radiation Oncology, 2021
Purpose: We aimed to evaluate the growth of women within the general radiation oncology (RO) workforce in comparison to the growth among other medical specialties.
Bismarck Odei, MD, Jenna Kahn, MD, Emma Brey Holliday, MD, Dayssy Alexandra Diaz, MD, MPH, Erika Bello-Pardo, BS, James Odei, PhD, Junu Bae, PhD, Andrea Arnett, MD, PhD, Raju Raval, MD, DPhil, Darrion Mitchell, MD, PhD   +9 more
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Pediatricians' Role in Caring for Preschool Children in Taiwan Under the National Health Insurance Program

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2009
The National Health Insurance (NHI) covers more than 98% of the 22 million people in Taiwan. Referral is not mandated, therefore, competition among specialties exists in caring for preschool children.
Ming-Chih Lin, Mei-Su Lai
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Diagnostic and Clinical-Epidemiological Insights into Pompe Disease: A Retrospective Analysis at a Reference Center for Inborn Errors of Metabolism [PDF]

Journal of Inborn Errors of Metabolism and Screening
Pompe disease (PD) is characterized by an inborn metabolic error resulting from the deficiency of the enzyme acid alpha-glucosidase, leading to glycogen accumulation within lysosomes. The severity of the disease is related to the age of symptom onset and
Sandra Obikawa Kyosen, Karen Barbosa Müller, Ana Maria Martins, Vania d’Almeida   +3 more
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Intraoperative endoscopic finding of the paranasal sinus mucoceles

Journal of Medicine in Scientific Research
Background Mucocele of the nose and paranasal sinuses are a slowly benign expansion that may cause compression of the surrounding important structures such as the orbit or the brain in 44.9% of cases.
Anwar Moawad Elbatawy, Essam Fathy Mohamed, Mohammad Mostafa Gaballah   +2 more
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