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Article: Behavioral exploration of career and specialty choice in medical students.(Brief Reports)
- Article from:
- Career Development Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
- Author:
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Understanding the process by which students naturally construct and internalize their educational experiences relating to career development is important to career counseling. The author investigated how exploratory behaviors during a community-based field experience course contributed to the vocational development of 1st-year medical students. Behavioral exploration data regarding medical career development and specialty decision making were collected from 91 first-year medical students before and after they engaged in an exploratory behavioral activity, the Ambulatory Care Experience course. Findings suggest that students had not progressed in their medical career ...