Medical specialties and the job market

Abstract

Professional choices are the product of both conscious and subconscious motivation. Many determining factors are involved, such as family influence, personal identification with the training course and the social status conferred by the profession. In addition to these factors, there are others of subconscious nature.1 It is possible that the fascination that medicine continues to hold for young people is not due solely to issues of a conscious nature. The image and the status that the title of physician confe…