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Physicians' Intention to Stay in or Leave Primary Care Specialties and Variables Associated with Such Intention

Gang Xu

J. Jon Veloski

Mohammadreza Hojat

Sylvia K. Fhelds

Jefferson Medical College

A national mail survey of primary care physicians was conducted in 1993 to examine the differences between those who planned to leave and those who planned to stay in primary care disciplines. The physicians who planned to stay in primary care were those who, at the time of choosing primary care specialties, were more influenced by factors such as personal social values, religion, and the presence of a role model prior to medical school. Physicians'race, sex, workload, debt, place where they grew up, family income as a child, and timing when they made the decision to enterprimary care disciplines are not associated with their plans to stay in or leave primary care disciplines. Findings indicated that personal social values, religious beliefs, and the presence of a role model prior to medical school not only influencedphysicians' choice ofprimary care, but had a lasting effect on their commitment to such choice.

Evaluation & the Health Professions, Vol. 18, No. 1, 92-102 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/016327879501800107
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