Demographic, educational, and psychosocial factors influencing the choices of primary care and academic medical careers

Abstract

The results corroborate the findings of previous studies that suggest that career-choice factors are influenced by admission procedures and curricular structures. The number of graduates choosing careers in either primary care or academic medicine may be increased by increasing their experiences in those fields. Medical schools may be able to use demographic, psychosocial, and curricular factors to fulfill their particular primary mandates, whether they be producing physicians in primary care or in academic medicine.