Difficulties experienced by medical students in choosing a specialty

Savickas, Mark L.; Alexander, Dale E.; Jonas, A P; Wolf, Frederic

doi:10.1097/00001888-198606000-00005

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“…To study this problem, they developed a specialty-oriented questionnaire to "measure specialty indecision among career-decided students". Their findings show that the "specialty indecision scale" is helpful in diagnosing specialty indecision, and then proceeding on to offer career counseling to medical students with specialty indecision (Savickas, Alexander, Jonas, & Wolf, 1986;Savickas, Alexander, Osipow, & Wolf, 1985). Borges, Manuel, Duffy, Fedyna, and Jones (2009) state that students can instinctively construct and internalize educational experiences relating to their career development.…”

Section: The Importance Of Specialty-oriented Career Counselingmentioning

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Satisfaction Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Two Models of Specialty-Oriented Career Planning Course

Peng¹,

Lin²,

Lin³

2017

IJPS

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This research is a two-semester experimental program that uses Freshman's "Finance Career Planning" of the undergraduate program of the finance department of the National Taipei University of Business (NTUB) as the experimental curriculum. This research explores and analyzes two models of "Specialty-oriented career planning course" to see if there is a difference in students' course satisfaction. The features of the second model include specialty-oriented lectures by finance alumni and assignments requiring the interviewing of upperclassmen, in addition to studying career counseling theory and specialty-topic content sharing. This research finds that there is a significant difference in students' course satisfaction within the two models of "specialty-oriented career planning course", wherein the second model is considered better than the first model, and the average scores of the five indicators of students' course satisfaction have all reached a significant level (the richness of course content, the clarity of lecturer's conveyance, the level of personal learning acquirement, the relevancy of course content to the topic, the design of course process and activities). This research proposes the following recommendations, in accordance with the research findings, that institutions of higher education should offer practical and feasible specialty-oriented career planning courses.

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Section: The Importance Of Specialty-oriented Career Counselingmentioning

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Satisfaction Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Two Models of Specialty-Oriented Career Planning Course

Peng¹,

Lin²,

Lin³

2017

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“…Savickas et al 60 studied all of the medical students present at the Ohio State University College of Medicine in 1 year. Using a specialty indecision scale, they asked students to indicate areas of difficulty pertaining to specialty choice decision.…”

Section: Role Of Process In Decision Makingmentioning

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Understanding and Improving Medical Student Specialty Choice: A Synthesis of the Literature Using Decision Theory as a Referent

Reed¹,

Jernstedt²,

Reber³

2001

Teaching and Learning in Medicine

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“…This may be due to one of two things: 1) a true lack of a relationship, or 2) changes in both uncertainty (through formal training or informal socialization) and changes in specialty preference during medical training. While some studies report that medical students are fairly stable in specialty preference during medical school (Rothman 1985), others find that many students change over the course of four years of socialization (DeForge and Sobal 1991;Heald and Zimet 1975;Savickas et al 1986;Babbott et al 1988).…”

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