PMID- 22458313
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20120731
LR  - 20151119
IS  - 1748-0361 (Electronic)
IS  - 0890-765X (Linking)
VI  - 28
IP  - 2
DP  - 2012 Spring
TI  - Admission factors predicting family medicine specialty choice: a literature 
      review and exploratory study among students in the Rural Medical Scholars 
      Program.
PG  - 128-36
LID - 10.1111/j.1748-0361.2011.00382.x [doi]
AB  - PURPOSE: The Rural Medical Scholars Program (RMSP) was created to increase 
      production of rural family physicians in Alabama. Literature review reveals 
      reasons medical students choose careers in family medicine, and these reasons can 
      be categorized into domains that medical schools can address through admission, 
      curriculum, and structural interventions. We examine whether admission factors 
      can predict family medicine specialty choice among students recruited from rural 
      Alabama. METHODS: We developed a questionnaire to study the ability of admission 
      factors to predict family medicine specialty choice among Rural Medical Scholars 
      (RMS). Eighty RMS graduates were surveyed by mail and 64 (80%) responded. 
      FINDINGS: Student characteristics of humanitarian outlook with commitment to 
      rural or underserved populations, family medicine decision or intention made 
      before or at medical school admission, and community influence were positive 
      associations with RMS choosing family medicine residencies; shadowing in an urban 
      hospital was a negative association. CONCLUSIONS: Statements of interest, 
      intentions, plans, and decisions regarding family medicine should be elicited at 
      the time of RMSP admission interview. Strong attachment to home community and 
      commitment to serving and living in a rural area are also important. Students 
      whose introduction to medicine was informed through shadowing or observing in 
      urban hospitals should be considered less likely to become family physicians. 
      Larger sample size studies are needed to assess the role of gender, race, marital 
      status, size of rural town, and MCAT score of candidates in affecting residency 
      choices of students selected for this rural medical education track.
CI  - (c) 2011 National Rural Health Association.
FAU - Avery, Daniel M Jr
AU  - Avery DM Jr
AD  - Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Alabama School of Medicine, 
      East Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35401, USA. davery@cchs.ua.edu
FAU - Wheat, John R
AU  - Wheat JR
FAU - Leeper, James D
AU  - Leeper JD
FAU - McKnight, Jerry T
AU  - McKnight JT
FAU - Ballard, Brent G
AU  - Ballard BG
FAU - Chen, Jia
AU  - Chen J
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Review
DEP - 20110525
PL  - England
TA  - J Rural Health
JT  - The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health 
      Association and the National Rural Health Care Association
JID - 8508122
SB  - IM
MH  - Alabama
MH  - *Choice Behavior
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Family Practice/*education
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Internship and Residency
MH  - Male
MH  - Rural Health Services
MH  - *Rural Population
MH  - *School Admission Criteria
MH  - *Students, Medical
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
EDAT- 2012/03/31 06:00
MHDA- 2012/08/01 06:00
CRDT- 2012/03/31 06:00
PHST- 2012/03/31 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/03/31 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/08/01 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1111/j.1748-0361.2011.00382.x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Rural Health. 2012 Spring;28(2):128-36. doi: 10.1111/j.1748-0361.2011.00382.x. 
      Epub 2011 May 25.