The Health Policy Attitudes of American Medical Students: A Pilot Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Relatively little is known about American medical student's attitudes toward caring for the uninsured, limiting physician reimbursement and the role of cost-effectiveness data in medical decision-making. We assessed American medical student's attitudes regarding these topics as well as demographic predictors of those attitudes, and compared them to practicing physicians.

Methods and findings

A survey instrument was explicitly designed to compare medical student attitudes with those previously reported by physicians. Between December 1st 2010 and March 27th 2011 survey responses were collected from more than 2% of the total estimated 2010-2011 US medical student population enrolled at 111 of 159 accredited US medical schools within the 50 United States (n = 2414 of

SUBMITTER: Dugger RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4608797 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature