Table 2.
Unadjusted and adjusted proportional odds ratios of medical students wanting to ultimately care for an underserved or vulnerable population
| Medical student characteristics | Proportional odds ratios (ORs) of medical students wanting to ultimately care for an underserved or vulnerable population | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Crude OR (95% CI) |
Adjusteda OR (95% CI) |
Adjustedb OR (95% CI) |
|
| Premedical volunteerism composite variable^ | |||
| Lowest tertile | (ref) | (ref) | (ref) |
| Middle tertile | 3.94 (1.59, 9.78) | 2.72 (0.99, 7.36) | 4.34 (1.32, 14.32) |
| Highest tertile | 5.92 (2.31, 15.13) | 4.33 (1.51, 12.40) | 5.68 (1.63, 19.81) |
| Being from a rural hometown* | 1.91 (0.91, 4.00) | 1.27 (0.44, 3.67) | |
| Medical school academic percentile^ | |||
| Lowest tertile | (ref) | (ref) | |
| Middle tertile | 1.29 (0.54, 3.06) | 2.40 (0.80, 7.19) | |
| Highest tertile | 0.33 (0.14, 0.79) | 0.58 (0.18, 1.83) | |
| Long-term career goals^ | |||
| Other specialty/ | (ref) | (ref) | |
| Subspecialise | |||
| Undecided | 2.45 (1.02, 5.82) | 1.64 (0.59, 4.54) | |
| Primary care | 4.39 (1.60, 12.05) | 1.95 (0.57, 6.73) | |
| Desire to locate practice in underserved area^ | |||
| No | (ref) | ||
| Maybe | 12.49 (4.79, 43.75) | ||
| Yes | 47.40 (13.67, 164.3) | ||
CI Confidence interval; ref. Reference; MCAT Medical College Admissions Test.
^Crude proportional odds ratio had a p-value less than 0.01.
*Crude proportional odds ratio had a p-value of 0.086
aModel adjusted for age, MCAT score, race/ethnicity, having a graduate degree, and undergraduate debt
b In addition to adjusting for the variables mentioned above, this model adjusted for long-term goals, hometown, and medical school percentile. Due to a high level of correlation between service interest and wanting to locate practice in an underserved area, the latter variable was not included in final adjusted models