Specialty choices and practice locales of black graduates from a predominantly white medical school

Abstract

The black graduates of the predominantly white MCGSM chose primary care specialties and remained in Georgia to a greater extent than did other MCGSM graduates. Like their counterparts from the historically black medical schools, the black graduates from MCGSM--in relatively large percentages--chose primary care specialties and served minority patients, low-income populations, and/or rural areas.

Chlamydia Screening of At-Risk Young Women in Managed Health Care: Characteristics of Top-Performing Primary Care Offices

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Variation in predictors of primary care career choice by year and stage of training

“…We specifically sought to determine whether relationships within the medical school and clinical arena previously shown to affect career choice, such as exposure to role models 13–16 and encouragement or absence of encouragement from peers and senior clinicians, 17,18 were associated differently with primary care career choice for residents and students and for those who trained in 1994 versus those who trained in 1997. We also studied whether key variables previously identified as correlates of primary care career choice for medical students, 19 such as gender, 9,20–27 age, 9,22,28 race, 22,24,29,30 size of one's hometown, 31–34 and marital status, 22,35 were differentially associated with career choice at different stages of training and different points in time. To achieve this aim, we surveyed fourth‐year medical students and residents in 1994 and 1997.…”