Relationship Between Confidence, Gender, and Career Choice in Internal Medicine.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding factors in internal medicine (IM) resident career choice may reveal important needed interventions for recruitment and diversity in IM primary care and its subspecialties. Self-reported learner confidence is higher in men than in women in certain areas of practicing medicine, but has never been explored as a factor in career choice.

Objective

The purpose of this study is to elucidate associations between confidence, gender, and career choice.

Design

IM residents completed a 31-item survey rating confidence in procedural, clinical, and communication skills on a 9-point Likert scale. Residents also reported anticipated career choice and rated influence of factors. Associations between gender and confidence scale scores, gender and career choice,

SUBMITTER: Gavinski K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7947144 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature