Table 2.

Multivariate Analysis of Medical Student Characteristics Predictive of Having a Mentor, UCSF, 1999^*

Characteristic	OR	95% CI	P Value
Fourth-year student	2.2	1.1 to 4.2	.02
Minority student†	2.1	0.8 to 5.4	.1
Medical school research	2.4	1.1 to 5.6	.03
Research before medical school	4.8	1.4 to 16.7	.01
Surgical specialty preference	2.7	0.9 to 7.9	.07
Satisfaction with advising from all sources at UCSF‡	1.8	1.4 to 2.4	<.001

^*Items not presented but included in the multivariate analysis (age, gender, marital status, children, perceived class rank, interest in academic career, and interest in research) were non-significant with P > .2.

^†Minority, African American, Latino and Native American/Pacific Islander.

^‡Satisfaction with advising indicated by rating of 4 or 5 on a 5-point Likert scale, 1 = not at all satisfied, 5 = very satisfied.

UCSF, University of California–San Francisco; OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval.