Articles: professional-practice.
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Comparative Study
Comparison of activity level and service intensity of male and female physicians in five fields of medicine in Ontario.
To examine the extent to which physician's sex explains variation in the activity level and service intensity of a cohort of physicians in each of five medical fields after other sources of variation are taken into account. ⋯ Although physician's sex explained much of the variation in activity level and service intensity, even after other important correlates were controlled for, the type and extent of differences observed between female and male physicians depended on the particular medical field examined. To understand the effect of the large increase in the number of women on the physician workforce, more detailed analyses by medical field are needed of the volume, mix and intensity of services provided by men and women, with adjustment for any possible differences in the patients seen in their practices.
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Health services research · Feb 1995
Comparative StudyPredictors of young physicians practicing specialties without prior graduate medical education.
This study identifies predictors of young physicians practicing specialties for which they did not report having graduate medical education. ⋯ Practicing specialties without prior graduate medical education in those specialties was related to sociodemographic characteristics and type of specialty training, but a fuller understanding of the circumstances affecting physician specialty changes will require querying physicians directly about their practice choices.
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Historical Article
Physiotherapy's quest for professional status in Ontario, 1950-80.
Physiotherapy is part of the new female-dominated paramedical occupations which have witnessed considerable growth in Canada since World War II. This article examines the main dimensions of physiotherapy's professionalizing drive in Ontario between 1950 and 1980. ⋯ It also examines physiotherapy's involvement in boundary disputes with the medical profession and chiropractic. Finally, the article explores the influence of gender on physiotherapy's professionalizing efforts, providing insights on the means women health practitioners have used to gain professional status and on the limits and constraints that their gender may have posed to the achievement of their goal.