Background In North America, there is limited data to support deliberate application
strategies for post-graduate residency training. There is significant interest in determining …

Introduction Medical students switch career preferences during medical school and likely
distinguish themselves in stability of preference over time. The purpose of our study was to …

Objective The Surgical Exploration and Discovery (SEAD) program was established to
facilitate career decision-making by providing preclerkship students with comprehensive …

Objective Attrition of general surgery residents highlights a need to support well-informed
specialty selection. This study evaluated preclerkship medical students' perception of …

Current standard geriatric curricula and exposure of students to the elderly may be
insufficient to influence students' interest in geriatric medicine. We developed an innovative …

Background Increased surgical workforce diversity diminishes health disparities. Methods
Researchers recruited and nonrandomly enrolled participants into intervention and …

Background Diversifying the surgical workforce is a critical component of improving care for
underserved patients. To recruit surgeons from diverse backgrounds, we must understand …

Medical students often find it challenging to select a residency program. 1 A contributing
factor may be that the residency application deadline often predates clinical exposure to all …

BACKGROUND: Aerospace Medicine is a small medical specialty. With the increasing need
for aircraft pilots, continued low Earth orbit NASA operations, and the emergence of …

Aims-Our main objective was to explore the motivations that led our third year Belgian
students to study medicine. Method-We used a mixed method as we collected both …