Table 3.

Top reason cited by survey respondents why visiting medical students do clerkships or electives at US and Puerto Rico allopathic medical schools with visiting medical student programs (n = 73)^a.

Reason	No. (%) of Responses
Desire to do a residency at our institution	34 (47)
Reputation of our institution	16 (22)
Location of our institution	7 (10)
Learning opportunities at our institution	4 (5)
Word-of-mouth encouragement	3 (4)
Cost	2 (3)
Other reasons	2 (3)
Left item blank	5 (7)

^a Responses to question 30 in Additional file 1.