How influential are medical school curriculum and other medical school characteristics in students' selecting pathology as a specialty?

McCloskey, Cindy B.; Brissette, Mark D.; Childs, John; Lofgreen, Amanda S.; Johnson, Kristen A.; George, Melissa R.; Holloman, Ashley; Bryant, Bronwyn H.; Berg, Mary; Dixon, Lisa R.; Karp, Julie Katz; Knollmann-Ritschel, Barbara; Prieto, Víctor G.; Timmons, Charles F.; Hoffman, Robert D.

doi:10.1016/j.acpath.2023.100073

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“…Our hope is that our personal journeys will add to the conversation, sparking new ideas or increasing advocacy to help future students explore this specialty with ease and enthusiasm. Anecdotal, narrative works like this could be used as an adjunct to the more formal, structural analyses being undertaken by larger organizations 3 , 8 , 18 , 26 , 27 , 28 to connect the numerical data with the student experience in hopes of improving medical student exposure to pathology during medical school and increase recruitment to meet the rising need.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Students respond to passionate educators. 8 We recommend identifying faculty or residents who are outwardly passionate about pathology and eager to engage students. Then, find as many ways to get them in front of preclinical learners as possible.…”

Section: The Preclinical Yearsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“… 9 Many students participate in research during their preclinical years to get a head-start on that aspect of the residency application. 8 Research in pathology is an effective way to get students into the pathology department while still being able to tie their work to different specialty interests. Pathology-based projects are applicable to many specialties, providing a more flexible research experience that could be spun to “fit in” to different specialty applications.…”

Section: The Preclinical Yearsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Pathology student interest groups are colloquially credited as one of the most important mechanisms for providing medical students with exposure to pathology. 8 However, perceived SIG relevance or lack of visibility can lead to a more varied and potentially more diverse student audience. 18 Based on the experiences presented here, we assert that pathology student interest groups are certainly important to help expose students to pathology and potentially connect interested students to resources and opportunities.…”

Section: Pathology Student Interest Groupsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Perspectives from two recent medical school graduates on exposure to pathology during undergraduate medical education: A narrative inquiry

Tannenbaum,

Lilley

2023

Academic Pathology

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Section: The Preclinical Yearsmentioning

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Section: Pathology Student Interest Groupsmentioning

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Perspectives from two recent medical school graduates on exposure to pathology during undergraduate medical education: A narrative inquiry

Tannenbaum,

Lilley

2023

Academic Pathology

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Experiential exposure as the key to recruiting medical students into pathology

Holloman¹,

Berg²,

Bryant³

et al. 2023

Academic Pathology

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The die‐hards, negotiators and migrants: Portraits of doctors' career pathways through specialisation

Rozario,

Farlie,

Sarkar

et al. 2024

Medical Education

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IntroductionGlobal workforce shortages in medical specialties strain healthcare systems, jeopardising patient outcomes. Enhancing recruitment strategies by supporting professional identity (PI) development may be one way to address this workforce gap—yet little research has explored this topic. The goal of the current study was to explore specialty‐specific recruitment through considering PI. As proposed causes of workforce shortages in anatomical pathology (AP) bear similarities to many other specialties, this study uses the field of AP as a model for specialist PI development and asks: (1) why, how and when do doctors choose to pursue AP training and (2) what can be learned from this for recruitment to AP and other specialties?MethodsA qualitative research approach was undertaken using narrative inquiry. Interviews with junior doctors interested in AP, AP registrars and AP consultants from Australia and New Zealand were interpreted as stories via ‘re‐storying’. Narrative synthesis of participants' collective stories identified chronological key events (i.e. ‘turning points’) in choosing AP.ResultsNarrative synthesis resulted in identification of three portraits entering medical specialist training: (1) die‐hards, deciding upon initial exposure; (2) negotiators, choosing after comparing specialties; and (3) migrants, seeking to move away from non‐pathology specialties. The negotiators and migrants cemented their decision to pursue AP as a postgraduate doctor, whereas the die‐hards made this decision during medical school.ConclusionsGiven the similarities in portrait traits between AP and other specialties across the literature, our results suggest ways to support specialty recruitment using PI development. We propose a medical specialist recruitment framework to support the PI development of doctors with die‐hard, negotiator and migrant traits. Use of this framework could enhance current specialty‐specific recruitment approaches, particularly in fields challenged by workforce shortages.

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How influential are medical school curriculum and other medical school characteristics in students' selecting pathology as a specialty?

Cited by 3 publications

References 17 publications

Perspectives from two recent medical school graduates on exposure to pathology during undergraduate medical education: A narrative inquiry

Perspectives from two recent medical school graduates on exposure to pathology during undergraduate medical education: A narrative inquiry

Experiential exposure as the key to recruiting medical students into pathology

The die‐hards, negotiators and migrants: Portraits of doctors' career pathways through specialisation

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