Medical Specialty Interest Survey (MSIS): understanding career interest and specialty training in commencing Australian medical interns.

Aim: To assess specialisation interests in commencing interns and create a standardised survey to aid medical schools, supervisors and health services in quantifying, understanding and supporting medical career development to improve medical workforce planning.

Method: The Medical Specialty Interest Survey (MSIS) cross-sectional study was used. Incoming interns at a multisite tertiary hospital network in Melbourne, Australia rated their desire to pursue each specialty as a career using a Likert scale (1-5).

Relationship between donor factors, immunogenic up-regulation, and outcome after kidney transplantation.

Epidemiological data show that the cause of brain death as well as the condition of the organ donor have considerable influence on the outcome of kidney transplantation. An early immunogenic up-regulation, which already exists at the time of organ removal seems to be primarily responsible. So far it has remained unclear which donor factors cause this effect.