%0 Journal Article
%T Medical Students¡¯ Views of Medicine as a Calling and Selection of a Primary Care-Related Residency
%A Andrew J. Jager
%A Audiey C. Kao
%J Archive of "Annals of Family Medicine".
%D 2018
%R 10.1370/afm.2149
%X 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
%K physicians
%K primary care
%K health manpower
%K career choice
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5758322/