PMID- 18519599
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20080707
LR  - 20211020
IS  - 0022-0337 (Print)
IS  - 0022-0337 (Linking)
VI  - 72
IP  - 6
DP  - 2008 Jun
TI  - Which factors influence students' selection of advanced graduate programs? One 
      institution's experience.
PG  - 688-97
AB  - The reasons that students choose certain specialties may be integral to the 
      quality of specialty programs and the future of those specialties. The Harvard 
      School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) has a high percentage (87.6 percent) of students 
      who enroll in postgraduate programs. The goals of this study were to establish a 
      baseline of factors that affect postgraduate program selection at HSDM and to 
      determine if there was a significant difference in factor selection by gender, 
      relationship status, graduation year, or choice to specialize versus choice to 
      pursue advanced training in general dentistry. As a pilot study, we asked HSDM 
      graduates from the classes of 2005 to 2007 to rank the importance of forty-two 
      factors in selecting a field of dentistry and a particular program or institution 
      within a specialty. Overall, students felt that intellectual content, challenging 
      diagnostic problems, and possessing a special skill or talent unique to a 
      specialty were the most important factors in choosing a field of dentistry. 
      Influence of family members in dentistry was ranked as least important. In choice 
      of a certain program or institution within a given field, clinical training and 
      philosophy of training were ranked most highly. Students felt that the 
      opportunity to moonlight was least important. Significant differences (p<0.05) 
      were found regarding gender, relationship status, and students who chose to 
      specialize versus those pursuing advanced general dentistry training. No 
      significant differences were found among the students in different graduating 
      classes.
FAU - Saeed, Sophia
AU  - Saeed S
AD  - Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
FAU - Jimenez, Monik
AU  - Jimenez M
FAU - Howell, Howard
AU  - Howell H
FAU - Karimbux, Nadeem
AU  - Karimbux N
FAU - Sukotjo, Cortino
AU  - Sukotjo C
LA  - eng
GR  - T32 DE007151/DE/NIDCR NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - J Dent Educ
JT  - Journal of dental education
JID - 8000150
SB  - IM
MH  - Boston
MH  - *Career Choice
MH  - *Education, Dental, Graduate
MH  - Female
MH  - General Practice, Dental/education
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Pilot Projects
MH  - Schools, Dental
MH  - Socioeconomic Factors
MH  - Specialties, Dental/*education
MH  - Statistics, Nonparametric
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
EDAT- 2008/06/04 09:00
MHDA- 2008/07/08 09:00
CRDT- 2008/06/04 09:00
PHST- 2008/06/04 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2008/07/08 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2008/06/04 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 72/6/688 [pii]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Dent Educ. 2008 Jun;72(6):688-97.