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Andriole DA, Klingensmith ME, Jeffe DB. Who are our future surgeons? Characteristics of medical school graduates planning surgical careers: analysis of the 1997 to 2004 Association of American Medical Colleges' Graduation Questionnaire National Database. J Am Coll Surg. 2006;203(2):177-85doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2006.04.026.
Andriole, D. A., Klingensmith, M. E., & Jeffe, D. B. (2006). Who are our future surgeons? Characteristics of medical school graduates planning surgical careers: analysis of the 1997 to 2004 Association of American Medical Colleges' Graduation Questionnaire National Database. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 203(2), 177-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2006.04.026
Andriole, Dorothy A, et al. "Who are our future surgeons? Characteristics of medical school graduates planning surgical careers: analysis of the 1997 to 2004 Association of American Medical Colleges' Graduation Questionnaire National Database." Journal of the American College of Surgeons vol. 203,2 (2006): 177-85. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2006.04.026
Andriole DA, Klingensmith ME, Jeffe DB. Who are our future surgeons? Characteristics of medical school graduates planning surgical careers: analysis of the 1997 to 2004 Association of American Medical Colleges' Graduation Questionnaire National Database. J Am Coll Surg. 2006 Aug;203(2):177-85. doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2006.04.026. Epub 2006 Jun 23. PMID: 16864030.
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J Am Coll Surg. 2006 Aug;203(2):177-85. doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2006.04.026. Epub 2006 Jun 23.

Who are our future surgeons? Characteristics of medical school graduates planning surgical careers: analysis of the 1997 to 2004 Association of American Medical Colleges' Graduation Questionnaire National Database.

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Dorothy A Andriole, Mary E Klingensmith, Donna B Jeffe

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  1. Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA.

PMID: 16864030 DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2006.04.026

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Identification of correlates of contemporary US medical graduates' surgical career plans can provide insights about the emerging surgical workforce composition and inform future recruitment efforts.

STUDY DESIGN: We analyzed individualized records of 95,176 graduates who completed the 1997 to 2004 Association of American Medical Colleges Graduation Questionnaire for associations between planning a general-surgery or a surgical-specialty (orthopaedic surgery, neurologic surgery, plastic surgery, urology, or otolaryngology) career and a set of medical-school experience, professional-setting preference, and demographic variables.

RESULTS: Graduates who reported better quality of their surgery clerkship experience and career-setting preference of "university faculty" compared with "nonuniversity clinical practice" were more likely to plan general-surgery or surgical-specialty careers compared with nonsurgical careers (each p < 0.001). Women and graduates from combined MD/PhD programs and those who planned to practice in underserved areas were less likely to plan general-surgery or surgical-specialty careers compared with nonsurgical careers (each p < 0.001). Graduates of nonwhite race or ethnicity and from combined MD/other-degree (non-PhD) programs were more likely to plan general-surgery careers (p < 0.001). Compared with 1997 graduates, 1998 to 2004 graduates were less likely to plan general-surgery careers than surgical-specialty careers (each p < or = 0.001), and 1999 to 2004 graduates were more likely to plan surgical-specialty careers than nonsurgical careers (each p < or = 0.006).

CONCLUSIONS: Contemporary graduates planning surgical careers represent a relatively narrow spectrum of US medical graduates, and those planning general-surgery careers differ in numerous ways from those planning surgical-specialty careers. Targeted efforts are warranted to recruit US medical graduates qualified to meet the nation's future health-care needs and advance the profession of surgery.

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