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 KJ, Corriere MD, Chronister SM, Durning SJ, Hemann B, Kelly W, Hanson JL, Hemmer PA, and Maurer D
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- Adult, Attitude of Health Personnel, Cross-Sectional Studies, Education, Medical, Graduate, Female, Humans, Internship and Residency statistics & numerical data, Male, Qualitative Research, Students, Medical legislation & jurisprudence, Surveys and Questionnaires, United States, Workforce, Life Style, Medicine, Military Medicine legislation & jurisprudence, Perception, Quality of Life psychology, Students, Medical psychology
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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.
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- 2012
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