Geneva medical students increasingly identify primary care physicians as role models after introduction of a compulsory clerkship

Figures & data

Figure 1. The Figure presents the proportions of final year medical students recalling a primary care physician role model in a cross-sectional survey administered one year before and in each of the three years following the introduction of a compulsory final-year clerkship in primary care practices. Percentages relate to the proportion of all students in each class. N = number of females and males, respectively.

Table 1. Participants’ characteristics and cross-sectional survey results, presented by class of students (academic year).

	Subgroups by academic year (student classes)				Total population	Statistical analyses of difference between subgroups
	2014/15*	2015/16	2016/17	2017/18
N	120	119	128	138	505
Age in years: mean (SD)	25.88 (1.49)	26.30 (2.85)	26.52 (2.25)	25.98 (1.64)	26.17 (2.12)	One-way ANOVA: F = 2.41 p = 0.07
Gender = female: N (% of total N of subgroup)	78 (65%)	64 (54%)	74 (58%)	75 (54%)	292 (58%)	Pearson’s X^2 = 3.83, p = 0.28
Has identified any role model: N (% of total N of subgroup)	98 (82%)	92 (77%)	103 (80%)	103 (75%)	396 (78%)	Pearson’s X^2 = 2.32, p = 0.51
Has identified a primary care physician as role model: N (% of total N of subgroup)	10 (8%)	15 (13%)	21 (16%)	29 (21%)	75 (15%)	Pearson’s X^2 = 8.90, p = 0.03
Career choice = primary care: N (% of total N of subgroup)	22 (18%)	16 (13%)	26 (20%)	29 (21%)	93 (18%)	Pearson’s X^2 = 2.88, p = 0.41

*Year before the introduction of the final-year primary care clerkship. Bold values designate p-values that are considered statistically significant (p < 0.05).