Career choices of general preventive medicine residency graduates: 1981-1986.
To identify career choices made by recent graduates of general preventive medicine residency programs, all funded residency programs in general preventive medicine (excluding federal and military programs) were surveyed. Eighty-two percent of programs responded and reported on the career choices of 241 graduates who graduated from 1981 to 1986. In order of preference, the categories of career choice were: program activities (36.5%), teaching (19.1%), clinical services (17.0%), and research (6.2%). About one-fifth (21.2%) chose other activities. The number of graduates more than doubled between the periods 1981-1983 and 1984-1986. There was a threefold increase in the percentage of graduates involved primarily in research; however, there was a 33% decrease in the percentage of graduates who became professional academicians.
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Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson 85719.
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D002321:Career Choice; D003479:Curriculum; D004501:Education, Medical; D007396:Internship and Residency; D011315:Preventive Medicine; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States