A four-year career and residency advising program.
Ohio; *Career Choice; Internship and Residency; *Counseling; Undergraduate; Medical; *Education
Pethtel L
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
1989
1989-07
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1097/00001888-198907000-00020" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1097/00001888-198907000-00020</a>
A multi-dimensional measure of vocational identity status.
*Career Choice; *Employment; Female; Humans; Male; Ohio; Psychometrics; Surveys and Questionnaires/*standards; Young Adult
Establishing a worker identity is among the most central aspects of the transition from adolescence to adulthood. Despite its importance, few measures with acceptable psychometric and conceptual characteristics exist to assess vocational identity statuses. This study reports the development and evaluation of the Vocational Identity Status Assessment (VISA), which is derived from established conceptual models and includes career exploration, commitment, and reconsideration dimensions. Results show that the VISA exhibited metric invariance across a high school and university sample. Cluster analyses demonstrated that the VISA consistently resolved six identity statuses across the two samples, supporting the previously established achieved, moratorium, foreclosed, and diffused statuses along with two additional statuses termed searching moratorium and undifferentiated. The identity statuses predicted differences in participants' work valences and well-being with the achieved and diffused statuses respectively exhibiting the most and least favorable characteristics. Implications, limitations, and suggestions for future research based upon these findings are offered.
Porfeli Erik J; Lee Bora; Vondracek Fred W; Weigold Ingrid K
Journal of Adolescence
2011
2011-10
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2011.02.001" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1016/j.adolescence.2011.02.001</a>
Assessing noncognitive attributes: the primary care orientation scale.
*Career Choice; *Primary Health Care; *School Admission Criteria; *Schools; Achievement; Clinical Competence; Health Services Needs and Demand; Humans; Medical; Medicine; Motivation; Surveys and Questionnaires; United States; Vocational Guidance; Workforce
Porfeli Erik; Fabbro Stephanie K
The virtual mentor : VM
2012
2012-12
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1001/virtualmentor.2012.14.12.stas1-1212" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1001/virtualmentor.2012.14.12.stas1-1212</a>
Career development during childhood and adolescence.
*Adolescent Development; *Career Choice; *Child Development; *Employment; *Social Identification; Adolescent; Child; Humans; Personnel Loyalty; Vocational Guidance/methods
Identity development is central to the career development of children and adolescents. This article reviews the literature pertaining to identity development as being composed of career exploration, commitment, and reconsideration and offers some implications for career interventions.
Porfeli Erik J; Lee Bora
New directions for youth development
2012
1905-07
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1002/yd.20011" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1002/yd.20011</a>
Factors influencing subspecialty choice among radiology residents: a case study of pediatric radiology.
*Career Choice; Career Planning and Development; Decision Making; Internship and Residency – Manpower; Internship and Residency – Statistics and Numerical Data; Internship and Residency/*statistics & numerical data; Medical – Manpower; Medical – Statistics and Numerical Data; Pediatrics – Manpower; Pediatrics – Statistics and Numerical Data; Pediatrics/*statistics & numerical data; Radiology/*statistics & numerical data; Specialties; United States; Workforce
PURPOSE: Persistent workforce shortages exist in some radiology subspecialties. Residents' motivations for selecting particular fellowships, as well as their perceptions of the subspecialty fields, heavily influence the supply of new radiologists to these areas. The authors investigated the factors residents consider most important in subspecialty choice, fellowship choice patterns between 1999 and 2008, and changes that might attract residents to one particular shortage field: pediatric radiology. MATERIALS AND METHODS: An online questionnaire was developed and sent to 1,000 radiology trainees in the United States using contact information from the ACR's national resident database. Anonymized responses were evaluated using analysis of variance and logistic regression models. RESULTS: Leading factors for fellowship selection were "area of strong personal interest," "advanced/multimodality imaging," and "intellectual challenge." Compensation ranked low, 13th among 20 factors. Large shifts in subspecialty preference were seen between 1999 and 2008. Those with a pediatric radiology preference ranked "physician-physician interaction," "physician-patient contact," and "altruism" higher than respondents selecting other subspecialties. Respondents believed that pediatric radiologists make less money than other subspecialists ($325,000 vs $385,000 per year). There was no association between choosing pediatric radiology and gender, age, research plans, or parental status. CONCLUSIONS: Multiple factors account for subspecialty selection among residents, and it is useful to understand these factors when attempting to recruit residents to specific subspecialties. To ease the workforce shortage in pediatric radiology, advanced and varied imaging modalities, numerous job opportunities, and well-paid private practice positions should be emphasized to residents.
Arnold Ryan W; Goske Marilyn J; Bulas Dorothy I; Benya Ellen C; Ying Jun; Sunshine Jonathan H
Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR
2009
2009-09
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacr.2009.05.005" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1016/j.jacr.2009.05.005</a>
Factors leading to radiology career selection: results of the 2004 National Physician Survey.
Humans; Workforce; *Career Choice; Students; Data Collection; Canada; *Radiology; Medical/psychology
Data from the 2004 National Physician Survey were used to determine when current Canadian radiologists made their decision to pursue a radiology career and to determine which factors were most influential in their decision. Most respondents reported having made this decision during their clerkship years of medical school (32.7%) or after a period of time in practice (25.4%). The most influential factors involved in this decision were perceived intellectual stimulation and workload flexibility or predictability. These results provide insight into the trainee's decision to pursue radiology and may be useful to those recruiting for radiology as well to medical students considering the field.
Maj Luke; Baerlocher Mark O
Canadian Association of Radiologists journal = Journal l'Association canadienne des radiologistes
2006
2006-06
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Financial incentives in residency recruiting for primary care: scope, characteristics, and students' perceptions.
*Career Choice; *Financing; *Program Development; *Students; Family Practice/economics; Government; Humans; Internal Medicine/economics; Internship and Residency/*economics; Interviews as Topic; Medical; Medicine; Pediatrics/economics; Perception; Personnel Selection; Primary Health Care/*economics; Specialization
BACKGROUND: One response to the decline in interest among medical students in residency training in primary care has been the offering, by residency programs and hospitals, of financial recruitment incentives to medical students during their residency interviews. Few data on the breadth and effectiveness of this practice have been available. METHOD: To gain insight into how hospitals and/or programs offered incentives, the authors compared 1990 and 1992 survey data on this topic from the members of the Association of American Medical Colleges' Council of Teaching Hospitals (AAMC/COTH) with 1992 data from the members of the Association for Hospital Medical Education (AHME), employing responses to identical questionnaire items. Complementary data on students' experiences with recruitment incentives in 1991 and 1992 were also analyzed. These data have been collected since 1991 in the Medical School Graduation Questionnaire (GQ) of the AAMC's Section for Educational Research, but little or no information had been available on medical students' perceptions of the effectiveness of these incentives. Therefore, one of the authors surveyed members of the classes of 1992 at four Midwestern medical schools about their residency interviewing experiences, including their reactions to financial incentives they encountered. RESULTS: The outcomes from these surveys indicate that, as expected, family practice, internal medicine, and pediatrics were the specialties most likely to offer financial incentives; that a wide variety of recruitment incentives was available to students; that the proportion of programs and hospitals offering such incentives was increasing (e.g., from 37% in the 1990 COTH survey to 54% in the 1992 survey); and that a large majority (79%) of students who encountered these incentives viewed them as at least somewhat effective in persuading them to consider matching with the programs that offered them. CONCLUSION: The prevalence and persuasiveness of financial incentives raise a number of serious questions, including whether competition for residents will divert funds from improving educational quality to recruitment.
Boex J R; Kirson S M; Keyes-Welch M; Evans A
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
1994
1994-11
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1097/00001888-199411000-00012" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1097/00001888-199411000-00012</a>
Job satisfaction of physicians with congruent versus incongruent specialty choice.
*Career Choice; *Job Satisfaction; *Medicine; *Specialization; Adult; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Predictive Value of Tests
Choosing a specialty within the occupation of medicine is problematic given the number of available specialty choices. A need exists for the development and modification of inventories to be used to help students with selecting a medical specialty. Furthermore, ratings of job satisfaction, regardless of specialty, are mixed with some physicians regretting choosing medicine as a career. Despite its use in medical specialty counseling, research is lacking regarding the Medical Specialty Preference Inventory (MSPI). We examined the predictive validity of the MSPI and compared job satisfaction of physicians (N=51) whose specialty was correctly (i.e., congruent) versus incorrectly (i.e., incongruent) predicted by the MSPI. The MSPI correctly predicted the specialty for 33%. Congruent physicians had higher job satisfaction than incongruent physicians. Results of this study may help individuals who provide medical specialty counseling or who are involved in designing tools and implementing programs to assist students with medical specialty decision making.
Borges Nicole J; Gibson Denise D; Karnani Rajil M
Evaluation & the health professions
2005
2005-12
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/0163278705281071" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/0163278705281071</a>
Methods Used by Colleges and Schools of Pharmacy to Prepare Student Pharmacists for Careers in Academia.
Humans; United States; Surveys and Questionnaires; Curriculum; Societies; *Career Choice; academia; Attitude of Health Personnel; career; Pharmacists; student preparation; training; Education; *Students; Schools; Faculty; Graduate; Pharmacy/*methods; Pharmaceutical; Pharmacy; Pharmacy/*organization & administration
Objective. To identify the methods used by US colleges and schools of pharmacy to prepare student pharmacists for academic careers. Method. An 18-item survey instrument was developed and distributed to US colleges and schools of pharmacy. Representatives were asked about faculty responsibilities, experiences in academia currently offered to student pharmacists, and representatives' perception of their student pharmacists' preparedness for careers in academia, including barriers in current programming. Results. Representatives from 96 colleges/schools responded. The vast majority (96%) provided academia-focused advanced pharmacy practice experiences (APPEs), 40% provided didactic coursework in academia, 28% offered a longitudinal research track, and 42% offered academia-focused independent studies. Teaching methods and creating learning objectives were the most common pedagogical content, while assessment activities were diverse. Time was the most prevalent barrier to providing training for academic careers; however, degree of student pharmacist interest, faculty inexperience, and lack of leadership support were also commonly reported. Conclusions: Colleges and schools of pharmacy vary in the extent to which they prepare student pharmacists for careers in academia. Advanced pharmacy practice experiences were the most common method of training offered. Standardization of training for academia may better promote this career path to student pharmacists.
Haines Seena L; Dy-Boarman Eliza A; Clifford Kalin M; Summa Maria A; Willson Megan N; Boyle Jaclyn A; Peeters Michael J
American journal of pharmaceutical education
2017
2017-02
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.5688/ajpe8116" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.5688/ajpe8116</a>
Primary care, the ROAD less traveled: what first-year medical students want in a specialty.
*Career Choice; *Life Style; *Primary Health Care; *Specialization; Cross-Sectional Studies; Female; Humans; Male; Medical/*psychology; Students; Surveys and Questionnaires; United States
PURPOSE: Medical students are increasingly choosing non-primary-care specialties. Students consider lifestyle in selecting their specialty, but how entering medical students perceive lifestyle is unknown. This study investigates how first-year students value or rate lifestyle domains and specialty-selection characteristics and whether their ratings vary by interest in primary care (PC). METHOD: During the 2012-2013 academic year, the authors conducted a cross-sectional survey of first-year medical students from 11 MD-granting medical schools. Using a five-point Likert-type scale (1 = not important at all; 5 = extremely important), respondents rated the importance of 5 domains of good lifestyle and 21 characteristics related to specialty selection. The authors classified students into five groups by PC interest and assessed differences by PC interest using one-way analysis of variance. RESULTS: Of 1,704 participants, 1,020 responded (60%). The option "type of work I am doing" was the highest-rated lifestyle domain (mean 4.8, standard deviation [SD] 0.6). "Being satisfied with the job" was the highest-rated specialty-selection characteristic (mean 4.7, SD 0.5). "Availability of practice locations in rural areas" was rated lowest (mean 2.0, SD 1.1). As PC interest decreased, the importance of "opportunities to work with underserved populations" also decreased, but importance of "average salary earned" increased (effect sizes of 0.98 and 0.94, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: First-year students valued enjoying work. The importance of financial compensation was inversely associated with interest in PC. Examining the determinants of enjoyable work may inform interventions to help students attain professional fulfillment in PC.
Clinite Kimberly L; Reddy Shalini T; Kazantsev Stephanie M; Kogan Jennifer R; Durning Steven J; Blevins Terri; Chou Calvin L; Diemer Gretchen; Dunne Dana W; Fagan Mark J; Hartung Paul J; Mechaber Hilit F; Paauw Douglas S; Wong Jeffrey G; DeZee Kent J
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
2013
2013-10
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0b013e3182a316eb" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1097/ACM.0b013e3182a316eb</a>
Who do you think you are? Medical student socioeconomic status and intention to work in underserved areas.
*Career Choice; *Intention; *Medically Underserved Area; Adolescence; Adolescent; Attitude of Health Personnel; Career Planning and Development; Ethnic Groups; Female; Humans; Intention; Male; Medical – Psychosocial Factors; Medical – Statistics and Numerical Data; Medical/*psychology/*statistics & numerical data; Medically Underserved Area; Medically underserviced areas; Practice location intentions; Scales; Sex Factors; Social Class; Socioeconomic status; Students; Widening participation; Young Adult
A frequently cited rationale for increasing the participation of students from low socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds is that it will create a workforce who will choose to work in low SES and medically underserviced communities. Two theoretical arguments, one that supports and one that contradicts this assumption, are proposed to explain the practice location intentions of medical students which we examine in a longitudinal analysis. SES background and future intentions of 351 applicants to an undergraduate medical degree were assessed at Time 1, with intentions re-assessed one year later for 96% of those who were enrolled as medical students. Students from very low (and very high) SES backgrounds indicated lower intention to practice in low SES or medically underserviced areas than those from mid-range SES backgrounds. Males and students from non-English speaking backgrounds indicated less desire to work in low SES areas, perhaps explained by high aspirational motivation. SES accounted for a relatively small amount of variance in practice intentions. Alternate predictors of practice location, including individual values and training effects, and their implications for selection practice, are discussed.
Griffin Barbara; Porfeli Erik; Hu Wendy
Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice
2017
2017-05
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1007/s10459-016-9726-1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1007/s10459-016-9726-1</a>