Association between HEXACO personality traits and medical specialty preferences in Mexican medical students: a cross-sectional survey.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Medical specialty is a critical choice in a physician's life because it determines their professional future and medical practice. While some are motivated to choose a specific specialty based on the monetary gain it can provide, others are inspired by seeing the work performed by a physician or by a patient's recovery. It is common to stereotype doctors' personalities by their specialty. METHODS:This was a cross-sectional survey study in which we administered the 100-item HEXACO Personality Inventory-Revised to 292 medical students between September 2018 and March 2019. We evaluated six different domains of personality traits. We also included questions about their medical specialty of choice, their least preferred specialty, and the motivation behind these choices. The partici

SUBMITTER: Barbosa-Camacho FJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7071694 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature