Table 2.

Predictors of Pursuit of a Career in General Internal Medicine^*

Predictor† (n = 297)	Odds Ratio	95% Confidence Interval	P value
Overall satisfaction	3.91	1.52 to 10.07	.01
Preclerkship interest‡
Not at all likely (1)	0.24	0.03 to 1.99	.19
Not very likely (2)	0.15	0.03 to 0.71	.02
Very likely (4)	0.72	0.24 to 2.09	.54
Certain (5)	5.51	1.12 to 27.09	.04
Site
Site 2	0.68	0.13 to 3.59	.65
Site 4	1.23	0.30 to 4.98	.77
Site 5	0.87	0.29 to 2.56	.79

^*We defined a student as pursuing a career in general internal medicine if they met all of the following 3 criteria: (1) a high stated likelihood of pursuing a career in general internal medicine (a response of 4 (Very Likely) or 5 (Certain) to the question, “Having completed this clerkship, how likely do you feel you are to pursue a career in general internal medicine?”); (2) matched into an internal medicine residency; and (3) did not envision a predominantly inpatient practice setting

^†These are the results of a multivariable logistic regression model, controlling for level of preclerkship interest and site, to test the effect of overall satisfaction, ranging from 1 to 5 on pursuit of a career in general internal medicine. Those students who had a preclerkship interest of “Somewhat Likely” served as the reference group. Because sites 3 and 6 included no students in pursuit of a career in general internal medicine, they were combined with site 1 to form the reference group

^‡Preclerkship interest is defined as response to the following question, “Before this clerkship began, how likely did you feel you are to pursue a career in general internal medicine?” The reference group is those students who responded “Somewhat Likely” (3)