Rabinowitz H K
Department of Family Medicine, Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA.
Acad Med. 1999 Jan;74(1 Suppl):S39-44. doi: 10.1097/00001888-199901001-00029.
Medical education research has identified a number of medical student characteristics that are related to graduates' entering generalist careers. These include initial specialty preference, geographic background, gender, age, ethnicity, economic and lifestyle factors, attitudes and personal values, service orientation, and premedical academic performance. Identifying and giving weight to these factors in the medical school admission process is likely to increase the number of graduates who choose generalist specialties. This paper discusses these medical student characteristics and presents strategies that medical schools could use in the selection process to enhance the matriculation of students who are most likely to become generalists. In this way, medical schools will be able to recruit and select students who are most likely to become excellent physicians, and also produce a more appropriate balance of all specialists to meet the needs of the population.
医学教育研究已经确定了一些与毕业生进入全科医学职业相关的医学生特征。这些特征包括最初的专业偏好、地理背景、性别、年龄、种族、经济和生活方式因素、态度和个人价值观、服务导向以及医学预科阶段的学业成绩。在医学院录取过程中识别并重视这些因素，可能会增加选择全科医学专业的毕业生数量。本文讨论了这些医学生特征，并提出了医学院在选拔过程中可以采用的策略，以提高最有可能成为全科医生的学生的录取率。通过这种方式，医学院将能够招收和选拔最有可能成为优秀医生的学生，并在所有专科医生之间实现更合理的平衡，以满足民众的需求。
