JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association
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Recent specialty choices of graduating US medical students suggest that lifestyle may be an increasingly important factor in their career decision making. ⋯ Perception of controllable lifestyle accounts for most of the variability in recent changing patterns in the specialty choices of graduating US medical students.
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By selecting a specialty to train in, physicians entering graduate medical education (GME) training provide advance information about the future physician workforce. ⋯ Nearly 25% of physicians in US allopathic training programs in 2002-2003 were IMGs, and the percentage of DOs continues to increase. The number of residents conversant in Spanish could serve a need for a large US minority population.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study Clinical Trial
Efficacy of sertraline in the treatment of children and adolescents with major depressive disorder: two randomized controlled trials.
The efficacy, safety, and tolerability of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) in the treatment of adults with major depressive disorder (MDD) are well established. Comparatively few data are available on the effects of SSRIs in depressed children and adolescents. ⋯ The results of this pooled analysis demonstrate that sertraline is an effective and well-tolerated short-term treatment for children and adolescents with MDD.