Swiss residents' speciality choices – impact of gender, personality traits, career motivation and life goals

Abstract

Background: The medical specialities chosen by doctors for their careers play an important part in the development of health-care services. This study aimed to investigate the influence of gender, personality traits, career motivation and life goal aspirations on the choice of medical speciality.

Medical students' choice of specialty and factors determining their choice: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey in Melaka-Manipal Medical College, Malaysia

“…Female students were more likely to choose Ob/Gyn than their their male counterparts. This result is similar to findings from Japan, Jordan, Turkey, and Switzerland (4,8,9,16). Female students were more likely to choose internal medicine and allied subjects because they involve less physical work than surgical fields like general surgery and orthopedics.…”

Motivation as an independent and a dependent variable in medical education: A review of the literature

“…Strong career motivation (BuddebergFisher et al 2006) or higher intrinsic career motivation (Buddeberg-Fischer et al 2003) were found to be independent predictors of choice of speciality. Students not considering any primary care specialties showed significantly higher achievement and power motives (Buddeberg-Fisher et al 2006). …”

Relations Between Goal-Orientation Profiles and Teacher Efficacy, Psychological Well-Being, and Job Satisfaction in Early Childhood and Elementary School Teachers: Using Latent Profile Analysis

“…Career motivation and life goals (for example, intimacy, affiliation, altruism, power, achievement and variation) have been found to influence career trajectories, such as fields of specialization of Swiss medical students (Buddeberg-Fischer, Klaghofer, Abel, & Buddeberg, 2006). Currently there is limited literature discussing how goals for teaching may have either a sustaining or limiting impact on teachers' careers.…”