title: Does teaching by family physicians in the second year of medical school increase student selection of family practice residencies?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Most educators feel that early instruction by family physician teachers increases the probability of students selecting family practice residencies.
  
  
  METHODS
  To examine this hypothesis, a retrospective cohort study was performed to evaluate residency selection of students who received their second-year Introduction to Clinical Medicine (ICM) teaching either from family physicians or other specialists (most commonly, internists).
  
  
  RESULTS
  For the 971 students who could be followed to residency, 13.6% of those having family physicians as instructors and 15.7% of those having other specialists as instructors chose family practice residencies. The difference is not significant.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is probable that the effect of having a family physician as a second-year ICM instructor is not significant enough to be detected by a study of this size and is simply "washed out" by other factors. It is also possible that no positive effect of second-year teaching by family physicians on residency selection exists.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine and Practice, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison.
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Beasley
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002321:Career Choice; D015331:Cohort Studies; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013663:Teaching