Relative Income Expectations, Expected Malpractice Premium Costs, and Other Determinants of Physician Specialty Choice

Kiker, B. F.; Zeh, M C

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“…In the current survey, both male and female students who selected surgery as a career significantly considered this prestige. Reports by other authors have reported that students who value prestige of their future profession are five times more likely to choose surgery or a surgical specialty over a primary care specialty (21). Social prestige appears to increase in importance among medical students after brief interaction with surgery faculty (22).…”

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Who Wants to be a Surgeon? A Survey of Medical Students at the University of Nairobi, Kenya

Mbugua¹,

Mwachaka²

2011

Ann Afr Surg.

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Who Wants to be a Surgeon? A Survey of Medical Students at the University of Nairobi, Kenya

Mbugua¹,

Mwachaka²

2011

Ann Afr Surg.

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“…There is much evidence supporting our assumption that talent determines sorting (e.g. Kiker and Zeh (1998) show that performance in medical school in uences the choice of specialty).…”

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On the Sorting of Physicians across Medical Occupations

Courty

Marschke

2008

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in On the Sorting of Physicians across Medical OccupationsPascal Courty Gerald Marschke The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post World Net. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. ABSTRACT On the Sorting of Physicians across Medical Occupations *We model the sorting of medical students across medical occupations and identify a mechanism that explains the possibility of differential productivity across occupations. The model combines moral hazard and matching of physicians and occupations with prematching investments. In equilibrium assortative matching takes place; more able physicians join occupations less exposed to moral hazard risk, face more powerful performance incentives, and are more productive. Under-consumption of health services relative to the first best allocation increases with occupational (moral hazard) risk. Occupations with risk above a given threshold are not viable. The model offers an explanation for the persistence of distortions in the mix of health care services offered, the differential impact of malpractice risk across occupations, and the recent growth in medical specialization.JEL Classification: D82, I10, J31, J33, L23

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“…[1][2][3] Many factors influence the career specialty decisions made by medical students. [3][4][5][6] These factors embrace a wide spectrum of influences and range from traditional motivators such as individual characteristics or anticipation of specialty-related income, to generation Y's typical career preferences, such as personal time free from practice requirements for leisure, family and vocational pursuits, along with control of the total number of hours per week spent on fulfilling professional responsibilities. These aspects of lifestyle were found to be more influential than more traditional motivators, such as remuneration, prestige and length of training.…”

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“…These aspects of lifestyle were found to be more influential than more traditional motivators, such as remuneration, prestige and length of training. [5][6][7] Information concerning the career choices of medical students is important in planning the health care workforce and medical education programs and providing equitable and quality health care services to the community. It is generally believed that understanding the factors influencing career choice could be used to modify methods of selection, medical school curricula and practice opportunities to better match population needs and student desires.…”

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Career choices, determinants, and need for medical career introduction among medical students

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Background: Having a specific assessment on medical students’ career preferences, their determinants for choosing them, and finding whether a career intervention in introducing career choices is consider needed in students’ point of view is important to generate an effective and suitable intervention for medical students, and can give appropriate support to the students. This study aimed to discover medical students’ career choices and their reasons for choosing those careers to find out their preferences. This study will also try to find their need of medical career intervention.Methods: The study conducted in cross sectional approach, und self-administered questionnaires was used to obtain the data.Results: Among 269 students, specialist is still considered as the most chosen career preference (75%) on students first, second and third choices. Followed by general practitioner, and hospital management. There was 7,8% of undecided students, and more that 75% students don’t have second and/or third career alternatives. Determinants of career choices with most votes are personal interest, social factors and experiences, with 35% of the students claiming not to know their reason for choosing their career preferences. Almost all the students agreed on wanting some activities to expose themselves to career choices, and they choose their first year, followed by third year and clerkship year as their preferred time to do the activities.Conclusions: Specialist is still the most sought out medical career, with personal interest and social factors as their main determinants. Career choices are needed to be introduce to students so they can have more options to choose from, and start to explore their career early.

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Relative Income Expectations, Expected Malpractice Premium Costs, and Other Determinants of Physician Specialty Choice

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Who Wants to be a Surgeon? A Survey of Medical Students at the University of Nairobi, Kenya

Who Wants to be a Surgeon? A Survey of Medical Students at the University of Nairobi, Kenya

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Career choices, determinants, and need for medical career introduction among medical students

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