Medical schools, primary care and family medicine: clerkship directors’ perceptions of the current environment
Male
Canada
Students, Medical
Career Choice
Primary Health Care
4. Education
Clinical Clerkship
United States
3. Good health
Physician Executives
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Humans
Female
Family Practice
Schools, Medical
Education, Medical, Undergraduate
DOI:
10.1093/fampra/cmz015
Publication Date:
2019-04-01T19:11:39Z
AUTHORS (5)
ABSTRACT
Abstract
Background
The culture at a medical school and the positive experiences in primary care clerkships influence student specialty choice. This choice is significant if the demand for primary care physicians is to be met. The aim of this study was to examine family medicine clerkship directors’ perceptions of the medical school environment.
Methods
Data were collected as part of the 2015 Council of Academic Family Medicine Educational Research Alliance Family Medicine Clerkship Director survey. Questions asked included how clerkship directors perceived the environment of their medical school towards family medicine, has the environment towards family medicine changed between 2010 and 2015, do they take action to influence student attitudes towards family medicine and whether faculty members in other departments make negative comments about family medicine.
Results
The response rate was 79.4%. While most respondents indicated the environment of their medical school has become more positive towards family medicine, a majority of clerkship directors perceived the environment to be either very much against, slightly against or indifferent towards family medicine. Nearly one-half (41.4%) of the clerkship directors were notified more than once a year that a faculty member of another department made a negative comment about family medicine. Results varied among regions of the USA and between schools located in the USA and Canada.
Conclusion
Family medicine clerkship directors often perceived negativity towards family medicine, a finding that may limit the effectiveness of academic health centres in their mission to better serve their community and profession.
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