{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["10(2)"],"submitter":["Yoon JD"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Background</h4>Role models in medical school may influence students' residency specialty choice.<h4>Objective</h4>We examined whether medical students who reported clinical exposure to a role model during medical school would have an increased likelihood of selecting the role model's specialty for their residencies.<h4>Methods</h4>We conducted a 5-year prospective, national longitudinal study (2011-2016) of medical students from 24 US allopathic medical schools, starting from the middle of their third year. The primary outcome measure was type of residency specialty choice 4 years after graduation. Main predictors were the clinical specialty of a student's most admired physician and the relative importance of 7 potentially influential factors for specialty choice in the fourth year of medical school.<h4>Results</h4>From 919 eligible participants, 564 (61%) responded to the first survey; 474 of the respondents (84%) completed the follow-up survey. We excluded 29 participants who were not in their fourth year by the time of the follow-up survey. Of the follow-up respondents, 427 (96%) had specialty data 4 years after graduation. In our multivariate models, exposure to an admired generalist physician prior to medical school (odds ratio [OR] = 2.21, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.03-4.73) and during medical school (OR = 2.62, 95% CI 1.69-4.05) had the strongest odds with respect to training in a generalist residency 4 years after graduation. Role model exposure also predicted specialty choice among those training in surgical and radiology, ophthalmology, anesthesiology, and dermatology (ROAD) specialties.<h4>Conclusions</h4>Personal exposure to role models in medical school is an important predictor of residency training in that role model's specialty."],"journal":["Journal of graduate medical education"],"pagination":["149-154"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC5901792"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Role Models' Influence on Specialty Choice for Residency Training: A National Longitudinal Study."],"pmcid":["PMC5901792"],"pubmed_authors":["Curlin FA","Yoon JD","Reddy ST","Ham SA"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Role Models' Influence on Specialty Choice for Residency Training: A National Longitudinal Study.","description":"<h4>Background</h4>Role models in medical school may influence students' residency specialty choice.<h4>Objective</h4>We examined whether medical students who reported clinical exposure to a role model during medical school would have an increased likelihood of selecting the role model's specialty for their residencies.<h4>Methods</h4>We conducted a 5-year prospective, national longitudinal study (2011-2016) of medical students from 24 US allopathic medical schools, starting from the middle of their third year. The primary outcome measure was type of residency specialty choice 4 years after graduation. Main predictors were the clinical specialty of a student's most admired physician and the relative importance of 7 potentially influential factors for specialty choice in the fourth year of medical school.<h4>Results</h4>From 919 eligible participants, 564 (61%) responded to the first survey; 474 of the respondents (84%) completed the follow-up survey. We excluded 29 participants who were not in their fourth year by the time of the follow-up survey. Of the follow-up respondents, 427 (96%) had specialty data 4 years after graduation. In our multivariate models, exposure to an admired generalist physician prior to medical school (odds ratio [OR] = 2.21, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.03-4.73) and during medical school (OR = 2.62, 95% CI 1.69-4.05) had the strongest odds with respect to training in a generalist residency 4 years after graduation. Role model exposure also predicted specialty choice among those training in surgical and radiology, ophthalmology, anesthesiology, and dermatology (ROAD) specialties.<h4>Conclusions</h4>Personal exposure to role models in medical school is an important predictor of residency training in that role model's specialty.","dates":{"release":"2018-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2018 Apr","modification":"2025-04-25T20:40:03.423Z","creation":"2019-08-04T07:30:36Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC5901792","cross_references":{"pubmed":["29686752"],"doi":["10.4300/JGME-D-17-00063.1","10.4300/jgme-d-17-00063.1"]}}