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Social dominance theory and medical specialty choice
Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2015Understanding 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 +3 more
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Physicians’ specialty choice and specialty income
1991Physicians 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, 2016Choosing a specialty that will keep you fulfilled over your entire career can be a daunting task.
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Physician assistant specialty choice
JAAPA, 2016ABSTRACT Objectives: To describe trends in physician assistant (PA) specialty distribution, compare these trends with physicians, and quantify the relationship of PA specialty prevalence with both PA and physician salary. Methods: PA specialty and salary data were obtained
Perri, Morgan +3 more
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Specialty choice and attitudes toward medical specialists
Social Science & Medicine (1967), 1970Abstract 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
1990Why 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, 2002Medical 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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Specialty choice of medical students in India
Medical Education, 1987Summary. 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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Medical Student Indebtedness and Choice of Specialty
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1992To 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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