Table 4.

Distribution of factor scores across groups and time points

Factors	MS1 T1	MS1 T2	MS2 T1	MS2 T2	p
Employment and job security	−0.17	0.00	0.10	0.09	0.070
Idealism in medicine	0.18	−0.06	−0.07	−0.07	0.064
Attraction to medicine	0.02	−0.07	0.03	0.01	NS
Status and income	−0.15	−0.04	0.14	0.08	0.061
Prestige and income	−0.03	0.04	0.02	−0.02	NS
Lifestyle and family	−0.12	−0.18	0.18	0.16	0.002
Idealism in specialty choice	0.13	−0.03	−0.04	−0.07	NS
Debt over content interest	−0.14	0.13	0.01	0.01	NS
Value of PC skills	0.10	−0.07	−0.03	−0.01	NS
Considering PC career	0.12	0.03	−0.10	−0.08	NS
Negative/antagonistic view of PC	−0.24	−0.13	0.18	0.21	<0.001
Negative/sympathetic view of PC	−0.19	−0.20	0.22	0.20	<0.001

Differences across groups measured via ANOVA.

NS=Not Significant.