TY - JOUR
T1 - Impact of a first-year primary care experience on residency choice
AU - Grayson, Martha S.
AU - Klein, Martin
AU - Franke, Kathleen B.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by New York Medical College and a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Generalist Physician Initiative.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - We designed a retrospective cohort study of first-year medical students to assess the impact of a community-based primary care course, Introduction to Primary Care (IPC), on residency choice. In the group that took IPC (n = 282), 48.2% entered generalist residencies (internal medicine, pediatrics, family medicine, or medicine/pediatrics), compared to 38.2% in the group that wanted IPC (n = 398) and 39.6% in the group that did not want IPC (n = 245). Controlling for gender, students who took IPC had a 40% higher odds of selecting a generalist residency than those who wanted to take IPC (odds ratio [OR], 1.42; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.04 to 1.95). There was no difference between those who wanted IPC and those who did not (OR, 1.08; CI, 0.78 to 1.52). The community-based primary care experience was positively associated with students' selection of generalist residencies.
AB - We designed a retrospective cohort study of first-year medical students to assess the impact of a community-based primary care course, Introduction to Primary Care (IPC), on residency choice. In the group that took IPC (n = 282), 48.2% entered generalist residencies (internal medicine, pediatrics, family medicine, or medicine/pediatrics), compared to 38.2% in the group that wanted IPC (n = 398) and 39.6% in the group that did not want IPC (n = 245). Controlling for gender, students who took IPC had a 40% higher odds of selecting a generalist residency than those who wanted to take IPC (odds ratio [OR], 1.42; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.04 to 1.95). There was no difference between those who wanted IPC and those who did not (OR, 1.08; CI, 0.78 to 1.52). The community-based primary care experience was positively associated with students' selection of generalist residencies.
KW - Career choice
KW - Community-based training
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U2 - 10.1046/j.1525-1497.2001.10117.x
DO - 10.1046/j.1525-1497.2001.10117.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 11903766
AN - SCOPUS:0035659987
SN - 0884-8734
VL - 16
SP - 860
EP - 863
JO - Journal of general internal medicine
JF - Journal of general internal medicine
IS - 12
ER -