RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
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
FD American Academy of Family Physicians
SP 59
OP 61
DO 10.1370/afm.2149
VO 16
IS 1
A1 Audiey C. Kao
A1 Andrew J. Jager
YR 2018
UL http://www.annfammed.org/content/16/1/59.abstract
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.