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  • Title: Characteristics of medical students who choose primary care as a career: the McMaster experience.
    Author: Woodward CA, McAuley RG.
    Journal: Can Med Assoc J; 1984 Jan 15; 130(2):129-31. PubMed ID: 6692191.
    Abstract:
    We examined the relation between demographic characteristics and the career choices of medical students who entered McMaster University medical school between 1969 and 1975. In contrast to earlier work, this study found no significant differences in sex, age, marital status at the time of entry into medical school, undergraduate major, whether prerequisite premedical courses had been taken, undergraduate grade point average and academic performance between the graduates who chose primary care and those who chose a specialty. This suggests that many medical school graduates in the 1970s entered primary care by choice rather than by default.
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