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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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Physician Assistant Specialty Choice: A Factor Analysis
The Journal of Physician Assistant Education, 2011The 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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Variables Affecting Specialty Choice in Occupational Therapy
The American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 1989Abstract 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 ...
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Factors in Student Choice of General or Specialty Practice
New England Journal of Medicine, 1956THE increasing trend toward specialization among medical graduates has been well documented by Weiskotten and Altenderfer.1 Only 41 per cent of the graduates of American medical colleges in 1915 were found to be limiting their practice to a specialty a decade after graduation, as compared with 74 per cent of the graduates in 1945.1 , 2 Recently, the ...
M A, MONK, M, TERRIS
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Trends in Evolution of Specialty Choice
JAMA, 1989This 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
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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Specialty Choices of Women in Medicine
1985Why 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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