Table 3.
Multiple regression analysis.
| Before clerkship | After clerkship | |||
| Independent variables | Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 1 | Model 2 |
| Gender | .314** | .069 | .222** | -.060 |
| Background characteristics | ||||
| Having considered allied profession | .189** | .066 | ||
| Physician parent | -.063 | .074 | ||
| Work experience in patient care | .033 | -.007 | ||
| Other health care education | .189** | .074 | ||
| Preferred patients category and type of work | ||||
| Chronically ill patients and palliative care | .025 | .148* | ||
| Acute patients and technology-oriented work | -.184* | -.260** | ||
| Preferred work conditions | ||||
| Prestige orientation | -.114 | -.155* | ||
| Controllable lifestyle orientation | .087 | .100 | ||
| Assessment of becoming a general practitioner | ||||
| Work intrinsic | .121 | .310** | ||
| Work extrinsic | .201** | .077 | ||
| Work conditions | .018 | .115 | ||
| Adjusted R2 | .097 | .405 | .043 | .458 |
The dependent variable is the likelihood of becoming a general practitioner before and after the general practice clerkship among medical students of the Maastricht University in 2002/03. Independent variable values are standardized Beta. N = 175.
** p < 0.01; * p < .05