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A pilot study was conducted with graduating senior medical students at New Mexico regarding the reasons for their specialty choice. Findings showed that in general students chose specialties based on an idealistic conception of how they could apply their skills in the area; however, students choosing psychiatry did so with different reasons.
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The work was done at the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Family, n]Community and Emergency Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
This study was supported in part by a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Grant # I-D15-PE86101-01.
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West, D.A., Moore-West, M. Factors Influencing Specialty Choice in Psychiatry. Acad Psychiatry 9, 115–122 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03399953
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