Table 2.

Explicit (Conscious) Preferences of 310 Third-Year Medical Students Who Completed the Weight Implicit Association Test, Wake Forest School of Medicine, 2008–2011

Characteristic	Moderately/strongly prefer fat	Slight or no preference	Moderately/strongly prefer thin	P value
Gender				<.001
Male, no. (% of 165)	0 (0)	96 (58)	69 (42)
Female, no. (% of 132)	0 (0)	104 (79)	28 (21)
Race/ethnicity				.64
Hispanic/Latino, no. (% of 10)	0 (0)	6 (60)	4 (40)
White, no. (% of 215)	0 (0)	141 (66)	74 (34)
Black, no. (% of 18)	0 (0)	14 (78)	4 (22)
Asian/Pacific Islander, no. (% of 35)	0 (0)	26 (74)	9 (26)
Multiracial/other, no. (%of 15)	0 (0)	9 (60)	6 (40)
Age				.69
<25 years, no. (% of 131)	0 (0)	85 (65)	46 (35)
25–28 years, no. (% of 145)	0 (0)	101 (70)	44 (30)
>28 years, no. (% of 29)	0 (0)	20 (69)	9 (31)
Timing of clerkship*				.64
Beginning of year, no. (%of 109)	0 (0)	70 (64)	39 (36)
Middle of year, no. (% of 101)	0 (0)	71 (70)	30 (30)
End of year, no. (% of 100)	0 (0)	68 (68)	32 (32)
Academic year				.998
2008–2009, no. (% of 99)	0 (0)	67 (68)	32 (32)
2009–2010, no. (% of 110)	0 (0)	74 (67)	36 (33)
2010–2011, no. (% of 101)	0 (0)	68 (67)	33 (33)

^* Beginning of year indicates months 1–4 of the academic year; middle of year, months 5–8; end of year, months 9–12.