MD/MBA Students: An Analysis of Medical Student Career Choice

Sherrill, Windsor Westbrook

doi:10.3402/meo.v9i.4353

Cited by 19 publications

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“…This finding is inconsistent with Sherrill's (2004) finding that individuals indicated that income prospects were the main motives in career decision making of participants in their study.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Exploring students motives for studying psychology: a qualitative study

Mudhovozi

Maree

2016

SAJHE

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The present study explored participants' motives for studying psychology. A qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and contextual research design was used. The research method consisted of a brief survey. Four Black participants (male = 2; female = 2) for the study were purposefully selected from a Historically Black institution of higher learning in South Africa. The data collected through audio-taped individual, semi-structured interviews were analyzed by means of content analysis. The participants were asked to describe their motives for choosing psychology

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confidence: 99%

“…This finding is inconsistent with Sherrill's (2004) finding that prestige was one of the most important reasons for choosing a career. This low rating may suggest that most of the participants in the present study did not regard psychology as having the social status of the health professions.…”

Section: Prestige and Respectcontrasting

confidence: 78%

Exploring students motives for studying psychology: a qualitative study

Mudhovozi

Maree

2016

SAJHE

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“…According to Vaidya et al, the categories of variables include sociodemographic factors, personal experiences, characteristics of speciality, and medical student personality traits (Vaidya et al, 2004). Regarding Sherrill, unique environment of the medical school has a major impact on students' perceptions of the practice of medicine and their career decisions (Sherrill, 2004). Medical school often represents the students' first contact with medical culture, the shared understanding and perspective of the medical profession.…”

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“…Medical school often represents the students' first contact with medical culture, the shared understanding and perspective of the medical profession. The future perspective of health care is changing in a rapid manner (Sherrill, 2004). Important decision such as choice of medical career is life changing, complex, stressful and is influenced by a variety of determinants.…”

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confidence: 99%

Curriculum Needs Redesigning; Enforced by Changes of Interest in Career Planning of Medical Students from Year 1 to Year 5

TONTUŞ¹,

KARABEY²,

GÜRDAL³

2010

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To assess Year 1, Year 3 and Year 5 medical students' interest in a career in different specialities. Little research addresses how medical students develop their choice of speciality training in Turkey. The purpose of this research was to clarify factors considered by medical students when planning their specialty choice. Interest and expectation questionnaire to 243 students in Ondokuz Mayıs University Medical Faculty in their 1st, 3rd and 5th year of education. Analysis of the collected data from 243 medical students in the same medical faculty. Data collected by paper based questionnaire from three different school year students in educational year 2009-2010. Although, Year 5 students' aiming towards to Clinical Sciences by 76.47%, Year 1 students choose Surgical Sciences for their postgraduate career by 61.65%. In their mind, Students started their undergraduate medical education as Surgeon but graduated as Clinical Specialist. Most prominent factor on choosing career is personal interest and personal skills for all students groups. Most wanted speciality is Ophthalmology for all cumulative groups. Departmental director of the medical specialties trying to influence on students positively in favour of their department as a career choice. But the students' choice is enhanced by own interest and skills. Our findings may be useful to medical faculty and governments and professional medical organizations as a whole are taking actions to make better futuristic plan for community.

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“…Although linear algebra is a classic technique, there have been interesting new uses for eigenvectors and their associated eigenvalues. Even the career choices of medical students [8] have been subjected to this kind of examination. In his wide raging analysis of co-citations of 50 leading medical informaticians [9], Andrews includes eigenvectors to capture the variability in his data.…”

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