A qualitative analysis of career transitions made by internal medicine-pediatrics residency training graduates.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Physicians who complete combined residency training in internal medicine and pediatrics (med-peds) have a variety of career options after training. Little is known about career transitions among this group or among other broadly trained physicians.

Methods

To better understand these career transitions, we conducted semistructured, in-depth, telephone interviews of graduates of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Medicine med-peds program who self-identified as having had a career transition since completing training. We qualitatively analyzed interview transcripts, to develop themes describing their career transitions.

Results

Of 106 physicians who graduated during 1980-2007, 20 participated in interviews. Participants identified factors

SUBMITTER: Burns H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3418526 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature