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Source: Ch 18. Katherine Woolf, Chris McManus: Predicting and guiding career success in medicine. (Read: 2017-10-24, 2019-04-10)

‘Each of them - as is often the way with men who have selected careers of different kinds - though in discussion he would even justify the other's career, in his heart despised it.’ Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina 1877)

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

1. 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.”
2. 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)

1. knowledge of self, job & career path (know)
   1. self efficacy - personality type?
2. ability to reflect on & plan around knowledge (do)
   1. personality big 5
      1. OCEAN: Openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism

1. based on Bandura's Socio-Cognitive Theory of Behaviour: the reciprocal influences of behaviour and thought on each other
2. depends on self-efficacy, outcome expectations and goals

1. those with potential are identified by elite and given support to progress
2. Wikipedia definition vs contest mobility

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