"Career Choice" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Selection of a type of occupation or profession.
| Descriptor ID |
D002321
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F02.463.785.373.346.400
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| Concept/Terms |
Career Choice- Career Choice
- Career Choices
- Choice, Career
- Choices, Career
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Career Choice".
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Career Choice" by people in this website by year, and whether "Career Choice" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2010 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2011 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2014 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2015 | 9 | 1 | 10 |
| 2016 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2017 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 2018 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 2019 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2020 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2021 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2022 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2023 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2025 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Career Choice" by people in Profiles.
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Rhee KY, Emala CW, Gallagher EJ, Rockey DC, Hu PJ, Vyas JM, Cook DP, Scharschmidt TC, Ajijola OA, Williams CS. Paving the physician-scientist career path: from grassroots gathering to national forum. JCI Insight. 2025 Apr 08; 10(7).
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Price AD, Nasim BW, Montgomery KB, Layne DL, Cortez AR, Abelson JS, Patel JA. A Multi-institutional Study From the US Resident Operative Experience Consortium Examining Factors Associated With Exposure and Pursuit of Colorectal Fellowship After General Surgery Residency. Dis Colon Rectum. 2025 May 01; 68(5):637-646.
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Fan EY, Megafu O, Lee J, Robinson SA, Bernal ES, Cleary M, Simons JP. Diversifying the Surgical Workforce: Understanding Barriers to Inform Solutions. J Surg Educ. 2025 Mar; 82(3):103418.
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Sharma ND, Young KC, Feld LD, Rabinowitz LG. Patched but Still Leaky: An Update on the Pipeline for Women in Gastroenterology. Dig Dis Sci. 2024 Oct; 69(10):3661-3669.
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Taros T, Zoppo CT, Camargo AM, DeBenedectis CM. Increasing magic number and other trends in diagnostic radiology NRMP match data. Curr Probl Diagn Radiol. 2025 Mar-Apr; 54(2):242-244.
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Chatterjee D, Nogueira AT, Wefes I, Chalkley R, Sturzenegger Varvayanis S, Fuhrmann CN, Varadarajan J, Jacob GA, Gaines CH, Hubbard NM, Chaudhary S, Layton RL. Citizenship status and career self-efficacy: An intersectional study of biomedical trainees in the United States. PLoS One. 2024; 19(3):e0296246.
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Williams CS, Gallagher EJ, Rockey DC, Ajijola OA, Hu PJ, Kazmierczak BI, Kontos CD, Vyas JM, Zaidi M, Rhee KY. Structural insights into the career path between pre- and postgraduate physician-scientist training programs. Elife. 2023 10 02; 12.
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Gurwitz JH. The Paradoxical Decline of Geriatric Medicine as a Profession. JAMA. 2023 08 22; 330(8):693-694.
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Tseng JF. The 2023 A. Hamblin Letton Lecture, Southeastern Surgical Conference Lecture "Choices Matter in Cancer Surgery: A Life's Journey". Am Surg. 2024 Jul; 90(7):1841-1848.
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Pellegrini VD, Simpson D, Milner R, Spector ND. Mid to Senior Clinician Educator Career Transitions and Vitality. J Grad Med Educ. 2023 08; 15(4):505-506.