Abstract
Undergraduate medical students established family medicine interest groups (FMIGs) across Canada to enhance their exposure to family medicine as a medical specialty. However, there has been limited research performed to evaluate if FMIGs are fulfilling their role in promoting postgraduate training in family medicine. The objective of this study was to determine whether or not participation in FMIG events influenced the residency decisions of fourth year medical students attending the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry. 32 fourth year students from the class of 2015 responded to an online survey. Overall, this study determined that FMIG events provided students with a greater understanding of the opportunities in family medicine (23/32), but did not influence residency decisions. The study was limited given the small cohort of medical students surveyed. In the future, it may be beneficial to pursue a Canada-wide research study of FMIGs to survey a larger number of students, and improve the validity and generalizability of the results.
Highlights
Undergraduate medical students established family medicine interest groups (FMIGs) across Canada to enhance their exposure to family medicine as a medical specialty
The survey examined which program each student had matched to, whether or not the student attended FMIG events, and any influence these events had on their final residency decisions
Residency decisions were not influenced by FMIG events
Summary
Other dents agreed strongly (2/9) or weakly (7/9) that FMIG events influenced residency decisions while 7/26 disagreed strongly (3/7) or weakly (4/7) with that statement. FMIG events did help respondents consider family medicine as a career with 15/26 agreeing either strongly (5/15) or weakly (10/15). FMIG events did not serve to help respondents rule out family medicine as a specialty, with 17/26 strongly disagreeing with this statement, and an additional
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