TY - JOUR T1 - Influences on medical student career choice:
Gender or generation? AU - Sanfey HA AU - Saalwachter-Schulman
AR AU - Nyhof-Young JM AU - Eidelson B AU - Mann BD Y1 -
2006/11/01 N1 - 10.1001/archsurg.141.11.1086 JO - Archives of
Surgery SP - 1086 EP - 1094 VL - 141 IS - 11 N2 - Hypothesis  We
hypothesized that increased enrollment of female medical
students and different priorities of the current generation of
students would be important influences on the declining interest
in surgical careers.Design  Students scored statements on
surgical careers on 5-point Likert scales regarding agreement
and whether these statements encouraged them to pursue a career
in surgery. Data were analyzed using the Mann-Whitney U test.
Qualitative comments were iteratively coded using a constant
comparative method.Setting  Nine US medical
schools.Participants  A Web-based survey on the Association for
Surgical Education server was e-mailed to medical students. A
total of 1300 of the 1365 respondents stated their sex.