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| Title |
Few gender differences in specialty preferences and motivational factors: a cross-sectional Swedish study on last-year medical students
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medical Education, March 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6920-13-39 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Saima Diderichsen, Eva E Johansson, Petra Verdonk, Toine Lagro-Janssen, Katarina Hamberg |
| Abstract |
Today, women constitute about half of medical students in several Western societies, yet women physicians are still underrepresented in surgical specialties and clustered in other branches of medicine. Gender segregation in specialty preference has been found already in medical school. It is important to study the career preferences of our future physicians, as they will influence the maintenance of an adequate supply of physicians in all specialties and the future provision of health care. American and British studies dominate the area of gender and medical careers whereas Swedish studies on medical students' reasons for specialty preference are scarce. The aim of this study is to investigate and compare Swedish male and female medical students' specialty preferences and the motives behind them. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 118 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 2 | 2% |
| Bahamas | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 114 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 23 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 14 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 11% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 11 | 9% |
| Researcher | 8 | 7% |
| Other | 22 | 19% |
| Unknown | 27 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 54 | 46% |
| Social Sciences | 9 | 8% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 4 | 3% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 3% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 3% |
| Other | 11 | 9% |
| Unknown | 32 | 27% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 January 2016.
All research outputs
#1,577,504
of 22,701,287 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Education
#192
of 3,296 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#13,275
of 195,228 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Education
#2
of 42 outputs
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