Does examining job market awareness among medical students provide insight into the specialty selection process?

Background: The future composition of a country's physician workforce depends on medical students' choices of specialties. Students' familiarity with the job market (the healthcare system) they are about to enter and the influence job market conditions have on their choices has not been well explored. This study focuses on whether and how the healthcare system's employment landscape is taken into consideration by medical students and whether this facet adds information about the specialty selection process.

Unpopular medical specialties: exploring the concept that "the customer knows best".

Background: Healthcare systems often face shortages of certain medical specialists due to lack of interest among medical students. We questioned a common "one solution fits all" approach to this problem which involves monetary incentives to lure students to these specialties. Instead, we used the marketing principle the "consumer knows best" to explore ways of elucidating the reasons and proposing solutions for such shortages.

Spiritual Interventions Used by Jewish Women to Facilitate the Family Continuum: A Qualitative Study.

Spiritual interventions (SI) are used by patients and their families as a means to promote health. The family continuum (FC), which includes finding a partner/spouse, getting married, becoming pregnant, and having a safe pregnancy/birth, is an important concept for the Jewish culture as well as other cultures that have a traditional family-centered approach. There is a dearth of professional literature pertaining to SI to promote the FC.

Interest in technology among medical students early in their clinical experience.

Background: The world is in the midst of the "digital" revolution characterized by the ascendency of computerization, information systems and artificial intelligence with an emphasis on innovation and creativity. This revolution has affected current medical practice and promises to significantly impact it in the future. This requires physician's understanding and participation in adopting such technology.

Mechanical ventilation patterns and trends over 20 years in an Israeli hospital system: policy ramifications.

Background: Mechanical ventilation is a life supporting modality increasingly utilized when caring for severely ill patients. Its increasing use has extended the survival of the critically ill leading to increasing healthcare expenditures. We examined changes in the hospital-wide use of mechanical ventilation over 20 years (1997-2016) in two Israeli hospitals to determine whether there were specific patterns (e.

Challenges to the Israeli healthcare system: attracting medical students to primary care and to the periphery.

Background: The greatest challenges facing healthcare systems include ensuring a sufficient supply of primary care physicians and physicians willing to work in rural or peripheral areas. Especially challenging is enticing young physicians to practice primary care in rural/peripheral areas. Identifying medical students interested in primary care and in residencies in Israel's periphery should aid the healthcare leadership.

Medical specialty selection criteria of Israeli medical students early in their clinical experience: subgroups.

Background: Israeli medical school classes include a number of student subgroups. Therefore, interventions aimed at recruiting medical students to the various specialties should to be tailored to each subgroup.

Methods: Questionnaires, distributed to 6 consecutive 5th-year classes of the Hebrew University - Hadassah School of Medicine, elicited information on criteria for choosing a career specialty, criteria for choosing a residency program and the importance of finding a specialty interesting and challenging when choosing a residency.

Timing of Orchidopexy for Undescended Testis in Israel: A Quality of Care Study.

Background: Strong evidence suggests that in order to prevent irreversible testicular damage surgical correction (orchidopexy) for undescended testis (UDT) should be performed before the age of 1 year.

Objectives: To evaluate whether orchidopexy is delayed in our medical system, and if so, to explore the pattern of referral for orchidopexy as a possible contributing factor in such delays.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective chart review of all children who underwent orchidopexy for UDT between 2003 and 2013 in our institution.

Using medical specialty and selection criteria clusters to study specialty selection by Israeli medical students.

Background: During their final year of medical school, Israeli students must consider which specialty to choose for residency. Based on the vocational counseling literature we presumed that choices are made by selecting from a cluster of related specialties while considering professional and socio-economic issues.

Methods: Questionnaires distributed to final-year medical students at two Israeli medical schools ascertained inclinations toward various medical specialties and the importance of various selection criteria.

Transitioning home: A four-stage reintegration hospital discharge program for adolescents hospitalized for eating disorders.

Purpose: Treatment for adolescents with eating disorders (ED) is multidimensional and extends after hospitalization. After participating in a four-step reintegration plan, treatment success including post-discharge community and social reintegration were examined from perspectives of patients, family members, and healthcare providers.

Design And Methods: Six pairs of patients and parents, and seven parents without their children were interviewed 2 to 30 months following discharge.

Nurses' report of in-hospital pediatric pain assessment: examining challenges and perspectives.

Pain is a symptom pediatric nurses commonly encounter in the hospital setting. Untreated pain can lead to adverse physiologic and psychological effects. This study examines in-hospital pain assessment methods nurses report using and assesses challenges, difficulties, and barriers nurses report to assessing pain in hospitalized children.

Israeli medical students' perceptions of six key medical specialties.

Background: Choosing a medical specialty requires medical students to match their interests and social-cultural situations with their perceptions of the various specialties.

Objectives: Examine Israeli 6th-year medical students' perceptions of six key specialties: pediatrics, orthopedic surgery, anesthesiology, obstetrics/gynecology, general surgery and family medicine.

Methods: Questionnaires distributed to 355 6th-year students from three successive classes (2008-2010) of 6th-year students at the Hebrew University - Hadassah School of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel and the 2010 class of the Ben Gurion University School of Medicine, Be'er Sheva, Israel.

Medical specialty considerations by medical students early in their clinical experience.

Background: Specialty selection by medical students determines the future composition of the physician workforce. Selection of career specialties begins in earnest during the clinical rotations with exposure to the clinical and intellectual environments of various specialties. Career specialty selection is followed by choosing a residency program.

[Validation of a Hebrew translation of the Gastroparesis Cardinal Symptom Index (GCSI)].

Background: Symptom checklists used in clinical research of gastroparesis have not been evaluated for reliability or validity. The Gastroparesis Cardinal Symptom Index (GCSI) is a reliable, validated measure whereby patients score three groups of symptoms: nausea/vomiting, postprandial fullness/early satiety and bloating.

Aim: The purpose of this study was to translate the GCSI into Hebrew and then validate the language of the translation for use in future studies.

Parental postoperative pain management: attitudes, assessment, and management.

Objectives: Previous studies suggested that parents frequently do not adequately treat postoperative pain that is experienced at home. Reasons for these parental practices have not been extensively studied. Aims of this study were to examine parental postoperative pain assessment and management practices at home as well potential attitudinal barriers to such pain practices.

Testing mediation in nursing research: beyond Baron and Kenny.

Background: R. M. Baron and D.

Children's desire for perioperative information.

Background: The purpose of this investigation was to identify what perioperative information children want to receive from the medical staff.

Methods: As a first step, we developed an instrument based on a qualitative study conducted with children in Great Britain, input from a focus group, and input from school children. On the day of surgery, 143 children aged 7-17 yr completed a 40-item assessment of desired surgical information and a measure of anxiety (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children).