title: A statistical procedure for predicting medical school graduates' specialty choices.
abstract: A statistical procedure was devised for selecting, from a group of contenders, a relatively small set of variables which most efficiently predict medical specialty choice. While it is possible to predict medical specialty choice with fair accuracy using subsets of variables, predictions are not conclusive enough to be useful in actual decision-making concerning individuals.
mesh_terms: D002321:Career Choice; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D008511:Medicine; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D013038:Specialization; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013337:Students, Medical