ArticleFamily medicine2023
Associations of the Informal Curriculum and Student Perceptions of Research With Family Medicine Career Choice.
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- Bridging the Research Gap: How Applicants to Family Medicine Residencies Compare With Other Specialties.PRiMER (Leawood, Kan.) · 2025Article
- Student Identity and Geography Matter for Specialty Choice in Family Medicine.Family medicine · 2023Article
- Are Student Attitudes Toward Family Medicine Research Associated With Family Medicine Career Choice at the Individual Level?Family medicine · 2023Article
- Response to "Are Student Attitudes Toward Family Medicine Research Associated With Family Medicine Career Choice at the Individual Level?"Family medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe United States is facing a primary care physician shortage that is predicted to continue through the next decade. Determining why graduating medical students pursue a career in family medicine may inform efforts to help address this shortage.
methodsMedical student responses to the Family Medicine Attitudes Questionnaire (FMAQ), a 14-item validated questionnaire developed to assess student attitudes toward family medicine, were collected at 16 US medical schools and compared to each institution's proportion of graduates entering family medicine. We also analyzed subscales of the FMAQ, including attitudes toward family medicine lifestyle, research, importance, and shortages, with respect to student choice of family medicine. We used Pearson coefficients to calculate correlations.
resultsStudent attitudes toward family medicine careers were strongly correlated with an institution's proportion of graduates entering family medicine. Positive perceptions of family medicine research by students was the factor most strongly correlated with matching into a family medicine residency.
conclusionStrengthening students' exposures and perceptions of family medicine and family medicine research may create viable opportunities for intervention by departments of family medicine and medical schools seeking to increase the number of graduates entering family medicine.
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