Physician Career Choice and Satisfaction: Empirical Studies of Practicing Physicians

摘要

summarizes the results of three studies that detail how and why physicians choose the types of practices where they work, physicians' personal characteristics, and their satisfaction with their work. The author of the book's preface, John R. Graham, notes that the University of New Mexico's medical school was established in 1961 and that there was debate among its teaching faculty on how to best teach medicine (p. iv). He adds that people learn best when they have a reason to learn rather than learning and regurgitating facts, as research from George Miller at the time showed. Therefore, the “shift toward motivation for learning emerged” (p. iv).