The role of medical school culture in primary care career choice.

Purpose: To examine individual-level and medical-school-level factors, including the school's primary care culture, that are associated with medical students' likelihood of practicing primary care.

Method: In spring 2010, the Association of American Medical Colleges Center for Workforce Studies invited all fourth-year medical students at a stratified random sample of 20 U.S.

Trends in sexual experience, contraceptive use, and teenage childbearing: 1992-2002.

Purpose: To examine how cohort trends in family, individual, and relationship characteristics are linked to trends in adolescent reproductive health outcomes to provide a better understanding of factors behind recent declines in teenage birth rates.

Methods: We examine a sample of three cohorts of females and males aged 15-19 in 1992, 1997, and 2002, based on retrospective information from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. We identify how family, individual, and relationship characteristics are associated with the transition to sexual intercourse, contraceptive use at first sex, and the transition to a teen birth.