"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 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2013 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2014 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2015 | 10 | 1 | 11 |
| 2016 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2017 | 6 | 5 | 11 |
| 2018 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 2019 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2020 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2021 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2022 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2023 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2025 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Career Choice" by people in Profiles.
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Baecher-Lind L, Bird JB, Ginzburg SB, Mann S, Petty EM, Schreiber CA, Gottlieb AS. State Laws on Reproductive Health and Graduating Medical Students' Choice of Specialty and Residency Location. Acad Med. 2025 09 01; 100(9):1061-1066.
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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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Harris H, Tan I, Qiu Y, Brouwer J, Abelson J, Sosa JA, Yeo H. Change Is Hardest Right Before the Glass Ceiling Breaks: An Update on Women Pursuing Careers in Academic Surgery at a National Level. Ann Surg. 2025 Aug 01; 282(2):176-183.
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Adebagbo OD, Girardi A, Quinn HS, Guo L. The Influence of Dedicated Research Year on Applicant Familiarity in the Integrated Plastic Surgery Match. J Surg Educ. 2025 05; 82(5):103478.
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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 03; 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.