Ebell Mark H, Phillips Julie P
Department of Family Medicine, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, 804 Service Rd, East Lansing, MI 48824, United States.
Fam Pract. 2025 Apr 12;42(3). doi: 10.1093/fampra/cmaf021.
Given high levels of student debt and a desire for high income, we hypothesize that the mean salary of a medical specialty is correlated with how desirable that specialty is for graduating US medical students.
We used salary data from a 2024 survey of 33,000 US physicians. As a proxy for desirability or competitiveness, we used the percentage of year 1 positions filled with US allopathic seniors based on data from the National Residency Match Program. Scatter plots were created and Pearson correlation coefficients were calculated.
There was a strong positive correlation between salary and competitiveness for US allopathic seniors (r = + 0.65). A negative correlation was seen for US osteopathic seniors (r = -0.53) and international medical graduates (r = -0.58).
A specialty's salary is strongly associated with its competitiveness for US allopathic seniors. Data for osteopathic seniors and international graduates shows the opposite association, suggesting a channeling bias of these students into lower-paying specialties or more successful efforts to encourage primary care careers.
鉴于学生债务水平较高且人们渴望高收入，我们假设医学专业的平均薪资与该专业对即将毕业的美国医学生的吸引力相关。
我们使用了2024年对33000名美国医生进行调查所得的薪资数据。作为吸引力或竞争力的代理指标，我们根据国家住院医师匹配计划的数据，使用了美国全科医学高年级学生填补一年级职位的百分比。绘制了散点图并计算了皮尔逊相关系数。
美国全科医学高年级学生的薪资与竞争力之间存在很强的正相关（r = +0.65）。美国 osteopathic 高年级学生（r = -0.53）和国际医学毕业生（r = -0.58）则呈现负相关。
一个专业的薪资与其对美国全科医学高年级学生的竞争力密切相关。osteopathic 高年级学生和国际毕业生的数据显示出相反的关联，这表明这些学生存在流向低薪专业的偏向，或者是鼓励从事初级保健职业的努力更为成功。
