Can we identify medical students at admission who will enter primary care residencies?

We sought to estimate the predictive value of admissions interviewers' impressions about student interest in primary care at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine (UKCOM). We counted the number of UKCOM students considered by the admissions interviewers to be interested in primary care careers prior to matriculation. We then compared the interviewers' impressions with the same students' choices of residency programs at graduation.

The relationship between medical students' academic achievement and patterns of initial postgraduate placement.

Purpose: To explore the relationship between various levels of academic achievement and the spectrum of initial specialty placements for graduates.

Method: The authors studied the initial specialty placements of all 1984-1994 graduates of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. Statistical analyses were used to determine the nature and strength of the relationships between initial specialty selection and students' achievement indicators and changes in that relationship over time.

The Kentucky medical curriculum. A response to the call for educational reform: a GPEP report card.

The resources of an important educational grant provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, as well as designated local college and medical center funds, provided support for the renewal of the undergraduate medical education program at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. The fully revised medical curriculum, adapted to changing professional and societal needs and completely in place by the 1994-95 academic year, was influenced by the recommendations of the General Professional Education of the Physician (GPEP) Report, issued by the Association of American Medical Colleges in 1984. This paper details each of the student-centered curricular changes in the context of the GPEP recommendation that it particularly addresses.

Developing generalists for Kentucky.

Since 1985, nearly half of the graduates of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine have chosen generalist careers, even though its students received almost no outpatient ambulatory training in primary care before 1990. This study determined the factors influencing the choice of generalist specialties in the absence of ambulatory training experience. A questionnaire was mailed to the 516 graduates of the classes of 1964 through 1989 who had entered a generalist specialty.

Factors influencing medical students' choice of academic medicine as a career.

The purpose of this study was to identify the characteristics of physicians who chose academic medicine as a career. A questionnaire was sent to all graduates of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine who held full-time positions in academic medical centers (n = 143). Ninety graduates (63%) returned usable questionnaires.