Personality traits predict the need for cognitive closure in advanced undergraduate medical students.

Background: Uncertainty in medical decision-making is a significant challenge influenced by various patient- and physician-related factors. They include physicians' clinical reasoning skills and their tolerance for uncertainty. Medical students are trained in clinical reasoning and have to learn to manage uncertainty.

Relationships between self-efficacy beliefs and personal factors in final-year medical students.

Background: Medical students entering postgraduate training often feel ill-prepared for clinical practice. This has implications for physician well-being and the quality of patient care. Self-efficacy represents an important contributing factor in the transition process.

Matching of advanced undergraduate medical students' competence profiles with the required competence profiles of their specialty of choice for postgraduate training.

Background: Matching between undergraduate students and their chosen specialty has implications for their personal job satisfaction and performance as well as societies' needs regarding health care quality. Knowledge regarding student-specialty fit can help improve students' decisions and detect potential deficiencies in specific competences. In this study, we compare self-assessed competence profiles of medical students close to graduation with the competence profiles of their specialty of choice for postgraduate training.