Medical student residency preferences and motivational factors: a longitudinal, single-institution perspective.

Background: A high proportion of medical school graduates pursue specialties different from those declared at matriculation. While these choices influence the career paths, satisfaction, and potential regret students will experience, they also impact the supply and demand ratio of the shorthanded physician workforce across many specialties. In this study, we investigate how the choice of medical specialty and the factors motivating those choices change between the beginning and end of medical school training.

Inpatient antibiotic resistance: Everyone's problem.

Greater efforts aimed at using antimicrobials sparingly and appropriately, as well as developing new antimicrobials with activity against multidrug-resistant pathogens, are ultimately needed to address the threat of antimicrobial resistance. This article describes the evidence-based management of inpatient infections caused by resistant bacteria and the role family physicians can play in reducing further development of resistance through antimicrobial stewardship practices.

Antibiotic stewardship: The FP's role.

Drug resistance is an expanding problem in outpatient settings. The text and tables that follow can help you fight it by adhering to optimal prescribing guidelines.