1. What Does a Good Lifestyle Mean to You? Perspectives of 4th-Year U.S. Medical Students With Military Service Obligations in 2009.
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Dezee, Kent J., Corriere, Mark D., Chronister, Stacy M., Durning, Steven J., Hemann, Brian, Kelly, William, Hanson, Janice L., Hemmer, Paul A., and Maurer, Douglas
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CHI-squared test ,FISHER exact test ,MEDICAL students ,QUALITY of life ,QUESTIONNAIRES ,SATISFACTION ,STATISTICS ,STUDENT attitudes ,T-test (Statistics) ,LIFESTYLES ,MILITARY service ,DATA analysis software ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics - Abstract
Background: A specialties’ lifestyle is known to be important for specialty selection, but how medical students define this concept is unknown. Purpose: The aim of this article is to determine how 4th-year medical students perceive lifestyle of specialties. Methods: All 4th-year U.S. medical students graduating in 2009 with a military service obligation were invited to participate in an electronic survey. Responses to an open-ended question, “When someone says ‘That specialty has a good lifestyle,’ what does that mean to you?” were classified into themes by a consensus of the authors and then compared to the students’ selected specialty. Results: Response rate for the questionnaire was 46% (369 of 797). Four themes describing lifestyle emerged: “schedule control” (67% of students), “off time” (53%), “financial aspects” (48%), and “work life” (26%). Conclusions: Medical students’ definition of a “good lifestyle” includes four themes, which should be used in future research of the lifestyle factor of specialty selection. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2012
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