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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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Medical Student Indebtedness and Choice of Specialty

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1992
To the Editor. —The costs of medical education rise yearly and a large proportion of these costs are met by borrowing. Nationwide, the average debt incurred during medical school in 1989 was $40 636 with only 24% of graduates having no reported debt. Conventional wisdom suggests that students select higher-paying medical specialties in order to repay ...
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Specialty choice of medical students in India

Medical Education, 1987
Summary. The objectives of this study are (1) to investigate undergraduate medical students’ attitudes towards different specialties and (2) to investigate whether there are any differences between the attitudes of students of different sex and different socio‐economic background.
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Variables Affecting Specialty Choice in Occupational Therapy

American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 1989
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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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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Trends in Evolution of Specialty Choice

JAMA, 1989
This study describes the evolution of specialty choices among US medical school seniors in 1983 and 1987. Its purposes were to determine the specialty interests of the 1987 cohort as these 11 264 students proceeded through medical school and to compare their evolving specialty plans with those of the 10 321 US medical school seniors in 1983.
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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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Specialty Choices of Women in Medicine

1985
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.”1 When senior medical students were asked why they chose the specialty of their upcoming first year of residency, both men and women
Marjorie A. Bowman, Deborah I. Allen
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Specialty Choice

Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 1989
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Factors influencing the choice of radiology as a medical specialty in Ireland

European Journal of Radiology, 2022
Jonathan McNulty
exaly