Factors in Student Choice of General or Specialty Practice

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THE increasing trend toward specialization among medical graduates has been well documented by Weiskotten and Altenderfer.1 Only 41 per cent of the graduates of American medical colleges in 1915 were found to be limiting their practice to a specialty a decade after graduation, as compared with 74 per cent of the graduates in 1945.1 , 2 Recently, the Massachusetts Academy of General Practice conducted a survey of 830 students in the three medical schools in Boston and 158 interns and residents in hospitals in the State. Of the first-year medical students, 44 per cent intended to enter general practice, 48 per cent . . .

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