Article
Surgery
Kevin A. Hao, Shengyi Fu, Saleem Islam, Shawn D. Larson, Moiz M. Mustafa, Robin T. Petroze, Janice A. Taylor
Summary: The interactions with attending and resident physicians during clinical rotations have a significant influence on medical students' career choices, especially for those pursuing surgical careers. Residents have a greater influence compared to attendings, particularly for students pursuing general surgery. Finding a role model and perceiving a personality fit are considered the most important factors in their specialty decision.
JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Yizhuo Gao, Xue Bai, Le Sun, Dong Jia
Summary: This study aimed to collect validity evidence of a questionnaire to measure the career choice of medical undergraduates in China. A cross-sectional survey was conducted and a 14-item questionnaire was developed and tested for reliability and construct validity. The questionnaire showed acceptable reliability and good construct validity, making it a suitable tool for exploring motivations of Chinese medical students.
BMC MEDICAL EDUCATION
(2022)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Eva Pfarrwaller, Lionel Voirol, Mucyo Karemera, Stephane Guerrier, Anne Baroffio
Summary: This study examines the stability of medical students' career intentions and the associations with individual characteristics. It finds that most students fall between the extremes of being firmly committed and undecided in their career decisions. External factors may be more influential than personal characteristics in driving these fluctuations. The findings suggest potential avenues for supporting students in their career decision-making.
BMC MEDICAL EDUCATION
(2023)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
William Adeboye, Temidayo Osunronbi, David Faluyi, Efua Abankwa, Semhar Abraha, Fatima Adamu-Biu, Zain Ahmad, Izieduwa Akhionbare, Chimba Chimba, Anna C. Corriero, Ikenna Ibeanusi, Deborah Inyang, Robert Jones, Rachael Madume, Valentine Mberu, Christine A. Mitoko, Ellen Nelson-Rowe, Marguerite O'Riordan, Serena Shoker, REMED-UK collaborators, Agbolahan Sofela
Summary: This study investigates the factors influencing research engagement and academic-career interests among UK medical students. The findings suggest that gender and ethnic disparities exist in research engagement and academic career interests among medical students. Female students are less likely to be interested in pursuing an academic career, while research experience and publication record positively predict academic career interests. Targeted opportunities to increase research productivity and self-efficacy in medical schools could help address these disparities.
POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL JOURNAL
(2023)
Article
Surgery
Carter McInnis, Hamza Asif, Stephen Mann, Andrea Winthrop
Summary: This study examines the impact of the Surgical Skills and Technology Elective Program (SSTEP) on career decisions of preclinical medical students. The results indicate that participating students are more likely to engage in procedural opportunities during clerkship and feel more confident in performing procedural tasks. Some students reported that the program influenced their decision to pursue a procedural career. Additionally, data shows that SSTEP participants have a higher match rate into procedural specialties.
JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Veterinary Sciences
Michael T. Nappier, Virginia K. Corrigan, Shelby Borowski, Danielle Lusk
Summary: This study examined the perception of veterinary students regarding careers in companion animal primary care and found that a majority of students prefer this career choice and have a positive perception of it. The positive perception increased over the academic year and did not differ significantly across different years in veterinary school. However, first-year students had a decrease in perception of training level over time.
FRONTIERS IN VETERINARY SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Stefan Ferdinand Hertling, David Alexander Back, Britt Wildemann, Ekkehard Schleussner, Mario Kaiser, Isabel Graul
Summary: Mentoring programs have a positive impact on students' career planning, but the participation of surgical specialties is low. Increasing the availability of mentoring programs, with a special focus on women and more surgical content, can help address the shortage of surgical trainees.
FRONTIERS IN MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Psychiatry
Alexis Revet, Jean-Philippe Raynaud, Daniel Marcelli, Bruno Falissard, Nicole Catheline, Gregoire Benvegnu
Summary: The shortage of child and adolescent psychiatrists in France is impacting access to mental health services. Factors for choosing this specialty include interest in working with children and psychotherapy. While only 58.4% of respondents find child and adolescent psychiatry attractive, most have no regrets and would choose the same career path again.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2021)
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
John A. A. Knox
Summary: Data from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard provides comprehensive information on the number and economic status of bachelor's degree recipients in the atmospheric sciences. Analysis of five years of data reveals a downward trend in the number of bachelor's recipients, with an average of at least 700 annually from 2015 to 2019. Institution-specific data allows for ranking of undergraduate programs, which has been challenging since the mid-2000s. Early career earnings data show an increase in median salaries and a moderate level of debt at graduation.
BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Jean-Sebastien Rachoin, M. Olguta Vilceanu, Natali Franzblau, Sabrina Gordon, Elizabeth Cerceo
Summary: A majority of medical students change their career preferences between the second and fourth year, with some fields being more preferentially switched to in the later years. Factors such as future salary, field competitiveness, work-life balance, mentorship, and specialty content were found to be associated with the likelihood of changing career choices.
BMC MEDICAL EDUCATION
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Ying-Jian Zhang, Kai Yuan, Su-Hua Chang, Wei Yan, Jian-Yu Que, Jia-Hui Deng, Yi-Miao Gong, Jia-Ming Luo, Shi-Chang Yang, Cui-Xia An, Yi-Min Kang, Hua-Shan Xu, Yi-Ming Wang, Li-Fang Zhang, Wen-Fang Zhang, Yin-Li Song, Dong-Wu Xu, Huan-Zhong Liu, Wen-Qiang Wang, Chuan-Xin Liu, Wen-Qiong Yang, Liang Zhou, Jiu-Bo Zhao, Miao-Yu Yu, Jun-Yu Chen, Hong Tang, Juan Peng, Xiu-Jun Zhang, Yong Xu, Ning Zhang, Li Kuang, Zhan-Jiang Li, Yu-Hua Wang, Jie Shi, Mao-Sheng Ran, Yan-Ping Bao, Le Shi, Lin Lu
Summary: More than half of medical students majoring in psychiatry planned to choose psychiatry as their career, while very few clinical medicine students would make this choice. Increasing students' interest in psychiatry, strengthening psychiatry clerkships, and popularizing psychiatric knowledge are modifiable factors to increase the psychiatry career intention.
BMC MEDICAL EDUCATION
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Lokke Gennissen, Karen Stegers-Jager, Job van Exel, Lia Fluit, Jacqueline de Graaf, Matthijs de Hoog
Summary: This study explored career orientations among medical students in the Netherlands and their implications for future career choices, identifying three distinct orientations: valuing lifelong self-development, valuing work-life balance, and being more concerned with achievement and recognition of work. These differences in orientations can help design interventions to guide medical students towards more satisfying and society-relevant career choices.
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Kramer Wahlberg, Amreen Mughal, Zhaojin Li, Marilyn J. Cipolla, Mary Cushman, Jonathan N. Flyer
Summary: Medical students completing a mentored cardiovascular SRF after their first year have a high rate of academic scholarship, with a publication rate already equivalent to national peer graduates; students participating in the SRF project strongly tend to choose careers in cardiovascular medicine and research.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Hsin-Yi Chiu, Chi-Ming Chiang, Yi-No Kang, Chia-Che Chen, Chien-Chih Wu, Yu-Han Chiu, Kung-Pei Tang, Chih-Chin Kao, Po-Li Wei
Summary: The study developed a questionnaire for assessing the preference for a surgical career using the Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) framework. The questionnaire was validated through expert panel evaluation and effectively validated gender differences in surgical career preference. Further research is needed to evaluate the targeted interventions for recruiting medical students into surgery using the SCCTSS.
Article
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Sumera Ali, Hunter D. Vines, Shelly Y. Lensing, Roopa Ram, Di Chang, Linda A. Deloney, Philip J. Kenney
Summary: This study analyzed the significance of specific factors in choosing radiology as a specialty and found significant differences among groups in salary, length of residency, and work-life balance. The data provide insight into factors that influence medical students to initially commit to, switch away from, and switch to radiology during medical school, which can inform mentors to guide students interested in a radiology career.
ACADEMIC RADIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Anatomy & Morphology
Koichiro Ichimura, Shota Kinose, Yuto Kawasaki, Kota Kato, Tatsuo Sakai
ANATOMICAL SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL
(2018)
Article
Urology & Nephrology
Koichiro Ichimura, Takayuki Miyaki, Yuto Kawasaki, Mui Kinoshita, Soichiro Kakuta, Tatsuo Sakai
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY
(2019)
Article
Anatomy & Morphology
Yuto Kawasaki, Shota Kinose, Kota Kato, Tatsuo Sakai, Koichiro Ichimura
Review
Cell Biology
Takayuki Miyaki, Yuto Kawasaki, Yasue Hosoyamada, Takashi Amari, Mui Kinoshita, Hironori Matsuda, Soichiro Kakuta, Tatsuo Sakai, Koichiro Ichimura
CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH
(2020)
Article
Orthopedics
Akihisa Koga, Yoshiaki Itoigawa, Tomoki Wada, Daichi Morikawa, Koichiro Ichimura, Tatsuo Sakai, Takayuki Kawasaki, Yuichiro Maruyama, Kazuo Kaneko
ARTHROSCOPY-THE JOURNAL OF ARTHROSCOPIC AND RELATED SURGERY
(2020)
Article
Anatomy & Morphology
Naoaki Kimura, Kota Kato, Hidaka Anetai, Yuto Kawasaki, Takayuki Miyaki, Hiroyuki Kudoh, Tatsuo Sakai, Koichiro Ichimura
Summary: The study evaluated the precise anatomy of the soleus muscle and found a broad aponeurotic posterior insertion tendon on the posterior surface, and three aponeurotic origin tendons on the anterior surface. The soleus muscle has a broad musculotendinous junction with wide structural diversity in the anterior bipennate muscle portion.
Article
Anatomy & Morphology
Hidaka Anetai, Shota Kinose, Riku Sakamoto, Rumiko Onodera, Kota Kato, Yuto Kawasaki, Takayuki Miyaki, Hiroyuki Kudoh, Tatsuo Sakai, Koichiro Ichimura
Summary: The location and course of nutrient arteries in long bones are crucial for operative procedures. The tibial and fibular nutrient arteries typically arise from the posterior tibial and fibular arteries respectively, penetrating different muscles to enter their respective nutrient foramina.
ANATOMICAL SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL
(2021)
Article
Cell Biology
Takayuki Miyaki, Yuto Kawasaki, Akira Matsumoto, Soichiro Kakuta, Tatsuo Sakai, Koichiro Ichimura
CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH
(2020)
Article
Cell Biology
Yuto Kawasaki, Yasue Hosoyamada, Takayuki Miyaki, Junji Yamaguchi, Soichiro Kakuta, Tatsuo Sakai, Koichiro Ichimura
Summary: In this study, FIB-SEM tomography with reconstruction was successfully used to describe the 3D architecture of normal GEnCs in adult rats, revealing three major subcellular compartments and two associated subcellular compartments. The reconstructed GEnCs showed high accuracy in visualizing the luminal and basal surface structures, providing valuable morphological information for the 3D pathologic evaluation of GEnCs and structural analysis of glomerular capillary system development.
FRONTIERS IN CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Clinical Neurology
Shigeaki Kobayashi, Toshio Matsushima, Tatsuo Sakai, Ken Matsushima, Helmut Bertalanffy, James T. Rutka
Summary: This article reviews the evolution of microneurosurgical anatomy with special reference to the development of anatomy, surgical anatomy, and microsurgery. It highlights the importance of detailed anatomical knowledge for the accurate and safe performance of microneurosurgical procedures. The development of surgical anatomy and microsurgery has greatly benefited from each other, leading to the fuller development of microneurosurgical anatomy by many neurosurgeons.
NEUROSURGICAL REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Anatomy & Morphology
Hidaka Anetai, Kounosuke Tokita, Ryuhei Kojima, Eishi Hirasaki, Tatsuo Sakai, Koichiro Ichimura
Summary: The study found that in Japanese macaques, the caudal deviation of the LSP origin is correlated with the elongation of the 12th rib, similar to humans. This suggests that the deviation of the LSP origin may have a correlation in different mammalian groups.
ANATOMICAL SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yuki Mochida, Koji Ochiai, Takashi Nagase, Keiko Nonomura, Yoshihiro Akimoto, Hiroshi Fukuhara, Tatsuo Sakai, George Matsumura, Yoshihiro Yamaguchi, Miki Nagase
Summary: The kidney plays a central role in body fluid homeostasis, and Piezo2 has been found to have important functions in the kidney. This study discovered that Piezo2 is primarily localized in mesangial cells and renin-producing cells in the kidney. In a mouse model of dehydration, Piezo2 expression was downregulated in mesangial cells and upregulated in renin-producing cells, accompanied by excessive renin production and enlargement of the renin-producing cell area. Additionally, in vitro cell experiments showed that knocking down the Piezo2 gene reduced the expression of the renin coding gene Ren1.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Review
Microbiology
Tatsuo Sakai, Yuh Morimoto
Summary: This paper reviews various infectious diseases in the five-period scheme of medical history and emphasizes the tremendous development of medicine and medical treatment.
Article
Anatomy & Morphology
Koichi Takeda, Kota Kato, Koichiro Ichimura, Tatsuo Sakai
Summary: This study aimed to clarify the morphological architecture of the hamstrings, including the superficial tendons, and quantify the structural parameters of the muscle. The study found that the hamstrings have different structural parameters that play an important role in their functional properties.
JOURNAL OF ANATOMY
(2023)
Article
Surgery
Hidetoshi Nojiri, Takatoshi Okuda, Kei Miyagawa, Nozomu Kobayashi, Tatsuya Sato, Takeshi Hara, Yukoh Ohara, Hiroyuki Kudo, Tatsuo Sakai, Kazuo Kaneko
Summary: This study found that the lumbar plexus localization in the psoas muscle varies with the level of the intervertebral disc, especially at the L4/5 level. It is important to consider the position of the psoas muscle relative to the intervertebral disc to avoid neuropathy.
SPINE SURGERY AND RELATED RESEARCH
(2021)