Though it wasn’t cited as the most important factor, potential lifestyle was a frequent response, Matalon and colleagues said, with 80 percent of participants marking the prospect of financial and lifestyle security as one of their greatest drives.
“Lifestyle is an important consideration for medical students and should not be discounted, as they must consider mounting debts, as well as future goals for themselves, their families and their communities in making career decisions,” the authors wrote. “However, while there is certainly no shame in considering potential lifestyle in choosing a future career, promoting the intellectual component of imaging may help attract medical students that will most appreciate a career in radiology.”
Indeed, the researchers’ data showed that choosing radiology for its lifestyle correlated with less job satisfaction, at least during residency.
“By engaging current medical students early and throughout their medical school curricula and by emphasizing the intellectual, imaging and procedural components of radiology, we can ensure a bright future of our field by recruiting those individuals with the greatest likelihood of achieving job satisfaction in radiology,” Matalon and colleagues said.
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