Abstract
AbstractMedical specialties require decidedly different abilities, skills, and talents; which results in divergent experiences, lifestyles, skill sets, and income levels. To help medical students select their preferred medical specialty and alleviate shortages in medical specialty staffing, US medical schools and associations invest time and money in decision-making resources, such as career-specific interest inventories. Strong and Tucker failed in their attempt to create a medical specialty interest assessment. Gough created the Medical Specialty Preference Scales; however, the instrument failed to achieve adequate reliability and validity. Zimney created the Medical Specialty Preference Inventory (MSPI), which achieved reliability and validity warranting use and continued development. Significant improvements and changes have been made to improve the predictive hit rates achieved by the MSPI. The Medical Specialty Preference Inventory-revised (MSPI-R) currently achieves predictive hit rates between 33 ...
Highlights
Medicine has a complex and diverse array of specialties, which requires decidedly different abilities, skills, and talents and results in divergent experiences, lifestyles, skill sets, and income levels (Rogers, Creed, & Searle, 2009; Sodano & Richard, 2009; Stratton, Witzke, Elam, & Cheever, 2005)
This paper offers a historical perspective that supports the researcher’s past efforts at improving career interest inventory reports and could inform improvements in career interest inventories in general, the career development needs of medical students, and the medical profession
Ophthalmology, orthopedic surgery, urology, psychiatry, and radiology are expected to see shortfalls (Bureau of Health Professions, 2008). Medical students choose their specialty based upon the opportunities they explored during medical school, the effect of role models and mentors, academic performance, personality attributes, and interest in the skills used in a medical specialty (Reed et al, 2001)
Summary
Medicine has a complex and diverse array of specialties, which requires decidedly different abilities, skills, and talents and results in divergent experiences, lifestyles, skill sets, and income levels (Rogers, Creed, & Searle, 2009; Sodano & Richard, 2009; Stratton, Witzke, Elam, & Cheever, 2005). Ophthalmology, orthopedic surgery, urology, psychiatry, and radiology are expected to see shortfalls (Bureau of Health Professions, 2008) Medical students choose their specialty based upon the opportunities they explored during medical school, the effect of role models and mentors, academic performance, personality attributes, and interest in the skills used in a medical specialty (Reed et al, 2001). To help medical students select their preferred medical specialty and to help alleviate shortages in medical specialty staffing, US medical schools and associations invest time and money in career education and counseling programs that offer interest inventories, values surveys, occupational information, and other resources (Borges, Savickas, & Jones, 2004). The author reviewed reference lists, author files, and experts in the field She included and synthesized publications, published in any language, on US medical specialty career interest inventories. All publications discussing US medical specialty career interest inventories have been included
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