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. 2017 Aug 8;1:13. doi: 10.22454/PRiMER.2017.153424

Table 1.

Semistructured Survey Instrument

Career Choice
Where are you headed in your future career?
How do your current career plans compare to those you had when you entered medical school?
What is it about you and your life circumstances that has brought you to this career choice?
What factors have either reinforced or altered your career trajectory?
Where in your future work do you see care for the underserved?
Can you speak to the role of the Underserved pathway had on your future career choice working with underserved communities?
Specialty/Residency Choice
What in the School of Medicine most influenced your career choice?
How did the Underserved Pathway influence your specialty choice?
Did the Underserved Pathway influence which programs within your specialty you applied to?
How does participation in the Underserved Pathway make it more or less likely that you will match in a residency of your choice?
Medical School Curriculum
What classes and experiences in medical school were most influential in shaping the career path you described?
Which components (III-3, Selectives, Clerkships, modules, mentorship, service learning) of the Underserved Pathway curriculum were most influential in the career path you described to me?
Which components of the Underserved Pathway curriculum were least influential in the career path you described to me?
Of the online modules, which ones did you find to be the most helpful in understanding issues related to underserved populations?
Of the online modules, which ones did you find to be the least helpful in understanding issues related to underserved populations?
Mentorship
In what program or department did you find mentoring?
Can you describe the relationship you had with your mentor?
How did your Underserved Pathway mentorship compare to other mentor relationships during medical school?
What did you and your mentor talk about or do with your time together?
Did your mentor relationship influence your career choice?
What would have made your mentorship experience more effective?
Service Learning
Tell me about your service learning activities
How did/does service learning influence your career decisions?
How many hours of community service, on average, did you complete per year?
Other
Is there anything else you would like to share with me today?
What would you change about the Underserved Pathway to make better?