Both the physician and the patients he serves have a crucial stake in questions of specialty choice. (HS)

The number of U.S. graduates who enrolled in the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) in 1984 increased by 577 from a year ago. The most competitive programs were in emergency medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, orthopedic surgery, otolarynology, urology, and diagnostic radiology. (MLW)

This study was designed to test the assumption that in postgraduate medical education internships offered by different types of hospitals attract different types of individuals. (Author)

Describes a program at the University of California-Davis designed for medical students interested in careers in health sciences. One of the goals of the program is to provide students with realistic data to choose a health career. (Editor/PG)

The medical scientist program at the Duke University School of Medicine was designed to prepare students with clinical experience for careers in basic science, clinical teaching, and investigation. The career selections and professional activities of graduates and the factors that may have influenced their career choices are examined. (MLW)

The changes in existing specialties and the demographic composition of medical school classes suggested that the predictive validity of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator should be reexamined. MBTI scores of students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine were cross-tabulated with their specialty choice. (MLW)

Comparison of 1967, 1968 and 1972 surveys of medical student career choices show that while family practice and internal medicine gained in popularity in 1972, all other specialities have declined. (Editor/PG)

Responses to 281 questionnaires were analyzed from 171 fellows, faculty members, and practitioners to determine the influential factors in pulmonary subspecialty decisions, and at what point of training these career decisions are made. The specific role of medical school instruction or interaction in these decisions was of special interest.…

The notion that medical education is a rigidly structured system, consisting of a few, relatively fixed patterns leading to different career outcomes, was not supported in this study using data from the Association of American Medical College's Longitudinal Study. Evidence was found of stratification among structural factors that influence access…

Two successive classes of entering medical students at the University of Colorado indicated specialty choices and their degree of certainty about them in the freshman, sophomore, and senior years. Nearly three-fourths switched specialties between freshman and senior years. Results are analyzed with respect to individual specialty areas. (Editor/JT)

Sixty-eight graduating residents were interviewed about their practice choice decision-making. The process commonly follows this sequence: acknowledging and undertaking the choice task, defining personal, professional, and family issues; establishing reward priorities; determining professional presentation; inquiring about practice opportunities;…

A discriminant analysis of objective and subjective measures from the records of students who graduated from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School over a six-year period was used to generate a model for the prediction of medical specialty choice. (Author/MLW)

The specialty choice of Black citizens in residence as of September 1977 is compared with the choice pattern of all physicians certified by specialty boards as of December 1977. Results indicate that the choice patterns of Blacks are almost identical to those of all board certified physicians with the implication that the choices of Blacks are…