ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to carry forward alternative career lines by showing how certain combinations of conditions in the occupational structure itself govern the movement of one type of person along one career line, while another type of person follows a different career line. It discusses the process by which personnel flow from one status to the next in an organized occupational system. The chapter presents data showing some of the conditions that determine the movement of personnel in the medical profession from the student status. The internship is a one-year postgraduate period, spent training in a hospital after graduation from a medical school. The chapter examines the choice between rotating and specialized internships, since the alternatives represent distinct status sequences from the common starting point in medical school, and present two different kinds of training that may lead into different career lines.
