TY - JOUR T1 - Medical Students’ Views of Medicine as a Calling and Selection of a Primary Care-Related Residency JF - The Annals of Family Medicine JO - Ann Fam Med SP - 59 LP - 61 DO - 10.1370/afm.2149 VL - 16 IS - 1 AU - Audiey C. Kao AU - Andrew J. Jager Y1 - 2018/01/01 UR - http://www.annfammed.org/content/16/1/59.abstract N2 - 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. ER -