RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Career choices of physicians 15 years after entering medical school
JF Canadian Medical Association Journal
JO CMAJ
FD Canadian Medical Association
SP 468
OP 469
VO 112
IS 4
A1 Spitzer, W. O.
A1 Hackett, B. C.
A1 Goldsmith, C. H.
YR 1975
UL http://www.cmaj.ca/content/112/4/468.abstract
AB The career status of 149 graduates of the University of Toronto faculty of medicine who entered in 1958 and graduated in 1962 was determined in 1973. The response rate to the mailed questionnaire was 96.6%. Of the graduates 4.7% were not practising medicine, 2.0% stated that medicine was not their primary gainful activity and 4.1% were untraceable or unknown. Of the 24 women in the class 17 (70.8%) were practising at least 76% of their time and 4 (16.7%) were practising 26 to 75% of their time. General practice or family medicine had been chosen by 39.0% of the class and a specialty by 55.7%; 5.4% were unknown or untraceable. The place of longest residence before entrance to university was a good predictor of ultimate location of practice but not of type of practice.