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Genya Shimkin1, Kimberly Kardonsky2, Alisse Cassell1
1Department of Family Medicine, Medical Student Education Section, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA.
Background And Objectives:
The purpose of this study is to compare the career outcomes of medical students who completed the Underserved Pathway (UP) at the University of Washington School of Medicine (UWSOM) to a matched cohort of their peers who did not complete the UP. Were participants more likely to practice in rural communities and/or primary care specialties than their peers who did not complete the UP?
Methods:
Starting with a list of 243 UP students enrolled between 2004 and 2012, we used propensity-score matching to build a matched cohort of non-UP graduates and then used multiple regression to compare the groups, with a focus on career outcomes.
Results:
A total of 384 UWSOM graduates were included in the analysis: 191 UP graduates and 193 non-UP graduates. Overall, UP graduates had three times the odds of practicing family medicine in a rural community than their non-UP peers and three and a half times the odds of practicing rural primary care.
Conclusions:
Longitudinal cocurricular programs that encourage students to explore and gain experience in underserved communities may help address physician workforce shortages in rural areas.
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