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Source: Predicting and guiding career success in medicine Ch18 2017-10-24 Katherine Woolf, Chris McManus

1. People are different, so notions of success are also different
2. “Medicine” as a vocation is “often treated as an entity”; while training is quite uniform, practice is not
3. Broadly: “Career success can be defined as the positive work-related and positive psychological outcomes of an individual's experiences over the course of their working life. It can be extrinsic, measured objectively in terms of material rewards such as pay and promotion to high-status and prestigious jobs. It can also be intrinsic, measured subjectively in terms of the psychological rewards received such as inherent enjoyment of one's work, attainment of personal goals, and satisfaction of personal values.”
4. correlation between intrinsic and extrinsic success is only moderate

:: autonomy, motivation

1. 3 universal psychological needs: Autonomy (have choice), Relatedness (have friends), Competence (is good)

intrinsic vs extrinsic goals

  
  - knowledge of self, job & career path (know) :: self efficacy - [[personality]] type?
  - ability to reflect on & plan around knowledge (do) :: personality big 5 <<big5>> 
       - OCEAN :: Openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism
- Socio-cognitive career theory SCCT
- self-determination theory (SDT): autonomy, relatedness, competence
- sponsored mobility :: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponsored_mobility][Wikipedia definition]] vs contest mobility