Senior Medical Students’ Attitudes toward Choosing Residency Programs in Primary Care

1985 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 38-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert R. Franklin ◽  
Pamela A. Samaha ◽  
Janet C. Rice ◽  
Susan M. Igras
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Residency Programs ◽  
Students Attitudes

scholarly journals Matching 25% of Medical Students in Family Medicine by 2030: Realistic or Beyond Our Reach?

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 252-255
Author(s):  
Alan K. David
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Family Medicine ◽  
Health System ◽  
National Health System ◽  
Family Doctors ◽  
Residency Programs ◽  
Primary Care Workforce ◽  
The Us ◽  
Physician Income

ABSTRACT: This article examines the America Needs More Family Doctors: 25x2030 Collaborative goal of “25x30”—that 25% of all medical students will enter family medicine residency programs by the year 2030. Filling 25% of all available postgraduate year-1 positions in the match is an important consideration in creating a strong primary care workforce. Data from the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) matches for 2010 and 2020 are reviewed to examine trends not only in the US MD and DO categories, but also US international medical school graduates (IMGs) and non-US IMG categories over the last 10 years. If the total number of all programs and of all positions offered were held constant in 2030, what shifts in student choices would be required to reach the 25x30 goal in each applicant category as well as for all four categories combined? This discussion explores resources, power, physician income, and other factors that affect student numbers. Until a national health system is developed with national goals and priorities, it is unlikely that 25x30 will become a reality.

scholarly journals Medical Students’ Attitudes towards Careers in Primary Care in Singapore

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Humairah Zainal ◽  
Helen Elizabeth Smith
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
General Practice ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Family Medicine ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
School Experience ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Family Doctors ◽  
Students Attitudes

Abstract Background: Singapore needs more family doctors to care for its ageing population and their chronic conditions. To boost the recruitment of doctors within primary care, we need to better understand medical students’ attitudes and experience of General Practice and Family Medicine. While many studies have explored the facilitators and barriers to teaching undergraduate medical students in this field of medicine from the perspectives of GP teachers and trainers, few have examined students’ exposure to primary care in medical schools. Although there are works on factors influencing students’ attitudes towards primary care careers, the roles of medical schools, professional bodies and state institutions tend to be discussed independently of one another. This article explores medical students’ perceptions towards careers in primary care and how different stakeholders might collaborate in strengthening the medical school experience. Methods: Six focus groups involving 54 students from three medical schools in Singapore were conducted. Discussions focussed on their primary care experience, their professional and career aspirations, and perceptions towards the opportunities and challenges of primary care careers. Thematic analysis was used to interpret the qualitative data. Results: 15 key themes emerged from the discussions; 10 reflected key concerns of pursuing primary care careers whereas 5 others highlighted their positive aspects. The former include society’s perceptions of primary care professions as sub-standard, specialists’ negative attitudes towards family doctors, the emphasis on the lifestyle benefits of primary care careers rather than their professional characteristics, mundane case mix, limited professional opportunities, lack of continuity of care, limited consultation time, low remuneration, need for business acumen, and conflicts created by business in clinical care. However, the respondents also articulated positive views, including its lifestyle benefits, autonomy of private practice and better patient care, opportunities for entrepreneurialism and a portfolio career, breadth of clinical problems presented, and an improved future for General Practice and Family Medicine. Conclusion: The findings demonstrate that coordinated initiatives from multiple stakeholders would help to increase the attractiveness of primary care as a career choice among students. Improvements in the medical school experience will significantly enhance the prestige of General Practice and Family Medicine.

Medical students’ attitudes to psychiatric illness in primary care

2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (11) ◽  
pp. 1080-1087 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert P Dixon ◽  
Lesley M Roberts ◽  
Stephen Lawrie ◽  
Lisa A Jones ◽  
Martin S Humphreys
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Psychiatric Illness ◽  
Students Attitudes

scholarly journals Medical students’ attitudes towards increasing early clinical exposure to primary care

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 312-313
Author(s):  
James van Oppen ◽  
Charlotte Camm ◽  
Gurvinder Sahota ◽  
Jaspal Taggar ◽  
Richard Knox
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Clinical Exposure ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Early Clinical Exposure

scholarly journals Contrasting Incoming Medical Students’ Attitudes

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 372-375
Author(s):  
Kristina A. Monteiro ◽  
Karl Dietrich ◽  
Jeffrey Borkan ◽  
Luba Dumenco ◽  
Allan R. Tunkel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Underserved Populations ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Traditional Students ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Parallel Track ◽  
Physician Leaders ◽  
Students Attitudes

Background and Objectives: The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University (AMS) recently implemented a novel dual degree MD-ScM program in primary care and population medicine (PC-PM) that enrolls up to 24 of its nearly 144 yearly matriculants. The overarching goal of this track is to train medical students to become physician leaders who focus on issues in population medicine within primary care. Methods: We conducted a baseline assessment of the students enrolled in this parallel track in comparison to our traditional students to identify characteristics of and group differences between students in the PC-PM program and traditional students. Data was collected from first-year students matriculating in the 2015 and 2016 academic years (N=277) using portions of nine validated surveys with an emphasis on caring for the underserved and cultural competence, professionalism, working in interprofessional teams, tolerance of ambiguity, empathy, patient-provider interactions, and patient safety/quality improvement. Results: We identified slightly higher significant baseline differences on three scales in which the PC-PM students (n=38) were higher than those in the traditional track students (n=239). These measured cultural competency (t[275]=-3.05, P=.003), professionalism (t[273]=-3.10, P=.002), and attitudes toward working with underserved populations (t[267]=2.31, P=.02). Conclusions: The higher differences for these three elements may be important to the success of the PC-PM program. We plan to track the growth of the PC-PM students as well as our traditional students through their 4 years of medical school to investigate growth and development throughout the academic career.

scholarly journals Association between medical student debt and choice of specialty: a 6-year retrospective study

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik M. Fritz ◽  
Suzanne van den Hoogenhof ◽  
Jonathan P. Braman
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical Specialty ◽  
Public Institution ◽  
Statistical Hypothesis ◽  
Student Debt ◽  
Statistical Hypothesis Testing ◽  
Average Income ◽  
Residency Programs ◽  
Significant Difference

Abstract Background The effect of rapidly increasing student debt on medical students’ ultimate career plans is of particular interest to residency programs desiring to enhance recruitment, including primary care specialties. Previous survey studies of medical students indicate that amount of student debt influences choice of medical specialty. Research on this topic to date remains unclear, and few studies have included the average income of different specialties in analyses. The purpose of this study is to observe whether empirical data demonstrates an association between debt of graduating medical students and specialties into which students match. Methods This was a retrospective cross-sectional study of a public institution including data from graduation years 2010–2015. For each included student, total educational debt at graduation and matched specialty were obtained. Average income of each specialty was also obtained. Statistical hypothesis testing was performed to analyze any differences in average debt among specialties; subanalysis was performed assessing debt for primary care (PC) versus non-primary care (NPC) specialties. Correlation between student debt and average specialty income was also evaluated. Results One thousand three hundred ten students met the inclusion criteria and 178 were excluded for a final study population of 1132 (86%). The average debt was $182,590. Average debt was not significantly different among the different specialties (P = 0.576). There was no significant difference in average debt between PC and NPC specialties (PC $182,345 ± $64,457, NPC $182,868 ± $70,420, P = 0.342). There was no correlation between average specialty income and graduation debt (Spearman’s rho = 0.021, P = 0.482). Conclusions At our institution, student indebtedness did not appear to affect matched medical specialty, and no correlation between debt and average specialty income was observed. Different subspecialties and residency programs interested in recruiting more students or increasing diversity may consider addressing alternative factors which may have a stronger influence on student choices.

Medical Students' attitudes toward basic sciences: influence of a primary care curriculum

1982 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 188-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
MAGGI WEST ◽  
S. P. MENNIN ◽  
A. KAUFMAN ◽  
W. GALEY
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Basic Sciences ◽  
Students Attitudes
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