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Specific Disgust Sensitivities Differentially Predict Interest in Careers of Varying Procedural-Intensity among Medical Students
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Consedine, Nathan S.; Windsor, John A. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2014
Mismatches between the needs of public health systems and student interests have led to renewed study on the factors predicting career specializations among medical students. While most work examines career and lifestyle values, emotional proclivities may be important; disgust sensitivity may help explain preferences for careers with greater and…
Descriptors: Vocational Interests, Medical Students, Student Interests, Specialization
A Comparison of Students' Clinical Experience in Family Medicine and Traditional Clerkships.
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Parkerson, George R., Jr.; And Others – Journal of Medical Education, 1984
Experience on the traditional internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics-gynecology, and psychiatry clerkships was compared with the experience on a family medicine clerkship. The family medicine clerkship offered the most experience with circulatory, respiratory, digestive, neurological, musculoskeletal, and skin problems and with…
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Comparative Analysis, Family Practice (Medicine), Gynecology
Relationship Between Performance in Medical School and Postgraduate Competence.
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Gonnella, Joseph S.; Hojat, Mohammadreza – Journal of Medical Education, 1983
The hypothesis that the relationship between medical school achievement and postgraduate performance would vary by specialty was confirmed in a comparison of grades, standardized medical exams, and ratings in four areas of competence (medical knowledge, data-gathering skills, clinical judgment, and professional attitudes) in internal medicine,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitudes, Competence, Evaluative Thinking
Specialty Choices of Kuwaiti Medical Graduates during the Last Three Decades
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Al-Jarallah, Khaled F.; Moussa, Mohamed A. A. – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2003
Introduction: This study examined postgraduate specialty training of Kuwaiti medical graduates during 1968 to 1999 and identified their attained professional qualifications to reveal scarcity in some specialties. Method: A survey was carried out involving review of the records maintained at the Kuwait Institute for Medical Specialization (KIMS)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Surgery, Specialization, Qualifications
Comparison of Support Services Offered by Residencies in Six Specialties, 1979-80 and 1988-89.
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Kahn, Norman B., Jr.; Addison, Richard B. – Academic Medicine, 1992
A study investigated the availability of each of 19 medical school support services offered by 493 residencies in 6 specialties: family practice; internal medicine; obstetrics/gynecology; pediatrics; psychiatry; and surgery. Results show many specialties do not offer common, effective support services. It is suggested that programs move to…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Comparative Analysis, Family Practice (Medicine), Graduate Medical Education
Effect of History of Psychological Counseling on Selection of Applicants for Residencies.
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Oppenheimer, Kim; And Others – Journal of Medical Education, 1987
A study of the extent to which a residency applicant's history of having received psychological counseling for stress-related problems influences residency program directors' perceptions of such an applicant found differing practices and attitudes in different specializations and toward males and females. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Admission, College Applicants, Counseling, Family Practice (Medicine)