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Variables Affecting Specialty Choice in Occupational Therapy

The American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 1989
Abstract Over the past 15 years, the number of occupational therapists entering the practice area of mental health has greatly declined. To determine the possible reasons for this decline, a random sample of 450 occupational therapy students who graduated in 1986 was surveyed to identify those factors that influence practice choice ...
P P, Wittman, S, Swinehart, R, Cahill, G, St Michel   +3 more
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Plastic surgery or primary care? Altruistic preferences and expected specialty choice of U.S. medical students.

Journal of Health Economics, 2016
Understanding physicians' decisions when faced with conflicts between their own financial self-interest and patients' economic or health interests is of key importance in health economics and policy.
Jun Yu Li
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Physician Assistant Specialty Choice: A Factor Analysis

The Journal of Physician Assistant Education, 2011
The purpose of this study was to identify factors related to physician assistant (PA) graduates' specialty choice.A web-based cross-sectional study of PAs graduating between 2007 and 2009 was conducted (N = 12,128). Factor analysis was performed on 897 useable survey responses.
Karen A, Wright, Venetia L, Orcutt
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Medical Student Communication Skills and Specialty Choice

Academic Psychiatry, 2014
The aim of this study was to determine if communication skills differ for medical students entering person or technique-oriented specialties.Communication ratings by clerkship preceptors on an institutionally required end of clerkship medical student performance evaluation (SPE) form were compiled for 2011/2012 academic year (Class of 2013).
Carol I, Ping Tsao, Deborah, Simpson, Robert, Treat   +2 more
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Social dominance theory and medical specialty choice

Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2015
Understanding how medical students select their specialty is a fundamental issue for public health and educational policy makers. One of the factors that students take into account is a specialty's prestige which hinges partly on its focus on technique rather than whole person.
Brice, Lepièce, Christine, Reynaert, Philippe, van Meerbeeck, Valérie, Dory   +3 more
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Physicians’ specialty choice and specialty income

1991
Physicians have been labelled at various times as being in short supply, although the current view of policymakers is that recent shortages have been confined to particular specialties and certain medically underserved locations. The primary care specialties — general practice, family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics and OB/GYN — have been ...
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Choices, choices: how to select a specialty

BMJ, 2016
Choosing a specialty that will keep you fulfilled over your entire career can be a daunting task.
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Specialty choice and attitudes toward medical specialists

Social Science & Medicine (1967), 1970
Abstract Sixty-two graduating medical students characterized four kinds of specialists and expressed their choice of specialty. The final stereotypes were: Surgeon —a decisive and efficient man of action driving forcefully to achieve his goals in an impersonal and autocratic manner; Pediatrician —a responsible person who actively relates to others ...
G H, Zimny, T R, Thale
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Specialty Choices of Women Physicians

1990
Why certain physicians choose particular specialties and others choose different specialties is somewhat of a mystery. “Even the most sophisticated work has failed to account for the specialty of a majority of the sample”.(GMENAC Staff Paper) When senior medical students were asked why they chose the specialty of their upcoming first year of residency,
Marjorie A. Bowman, Deborah I. Allen
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Physician Specialty Choice under Uncertainty

Journal of Labor Economics, 2002
Medical students must receive residency training in a specialty before they can practice medicine in the United States. Since the residents' salaries do not adjust across specialties, residency positions are rationed, and medical students face uncertainty when choosing a specialty.
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