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  • Title: Medical Students' Views of Medicine as a Calling and Selection of a Primary Care-Related Residency.
    Author: Kao AC, Jager AJ.
    Journal: Ann Fam Med; 2018 Jan; 16(1):59-61. PubMed ID: 29311177.
    Abstract:
    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.
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