{"id":315,"date":"2012-01-12T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T01:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=315"},"modified":"2012-01-12T21:18:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T01:18:00","slug":"is-medical-student-choice-of-a-primary-care-residency-influenced-by-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"Is Medical Student Choice of a Primary Care Residency Influenced by Debt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1868367\/\">Is Medical Student Choice of a Primary Care Residency Influenced by Debt?<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mean total debt for the study population was $89,807 (SD = 54,925). Graduates entering PC did not have significantly less total debt than those entering NPC ($87,206 vs $91,430; P = .09). Further, total debt was not a predictor of a PC residency after adjusting for medical school, year of graduation, and years of training in residency (P = .64).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/theincidentaleconomist.com\/wordpress\/should-medical-school-be-free-ctd\/\">another take<\/a>, similarly suggests medical school costs as independent of specialty choice. I can imagine several reasons for this, and I think the grand experiment could be somewhat as suggested &#8211; try major reductions in specialty income and increases in PC income and see what happens. Only half joking here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sent using Google Toolbar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Medical Student Choice of a Primary Care Residency Influenced by Debt?: Mean total debt for the study population was $89,807 (SD = 54,925). Graduates entering PC did not have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=315\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Medical Student Choice of a Primary Care Residency Influenced by Debt?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physician-income"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}