PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Kao, Audiey C.
AU  - Jager, Andrew J.
TI  - Medical Students’ Views of Medicine as a Calling and Selection of a Primary Care-Related Residency
AID  - 10.1370/afm.2149
DP  - 2018 Jan 01
TA  - The Annals of Family Medicine
PG  - 59--61
VI  - 16
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/16/1/59.short
4100  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/16/1/59.full
SO  - Ann Fam Med2018 Jan 01; 16
AB  - With the US health care system facing a primary care physician shortage, we evaluated whether medical students who saw medicine as a calling were more likely to enter a family medicine, internal medicine, or pediatrics residency program. Of the 591 4th-year medical students who responded to a survey item on medicine as a calling, 237 strongly agreed that the “practice of medicine is a calling.” Students who strongly agreed that medicine was a calling had higher odds (P=.003) of selecting a primary care-related residency. Identifying with medicine as a calling may increase the likelihood of pursuing a primary care career.