Table 2.

Precourse Questionnaire Response Comparison

Survey Item	Mean (SD)		Independent t Testc
	Enrollees (n=24)	Nonenrollees (n=10)	T	P Value
Interest in a career in primary care (1 to 7)a	4.92 (1.50)	3.90 (1.79)	1.70	.099
Attitudes toward primary care (1 to 5)b
1 Primary care clinicians enjoy their work	2.67 (1.05)	2.10 (1.05)	1.50	.143
2 Primary care clinicians incorporate procedures as part of their patient care	4.63 (0.50)	4.50 (0.71)	0.59	.559
3 Primary care clinicians’ work is complex and interesting	4.00 (0.66)	4.10 (0.74)	−0.39	.700
4 Primary care specialties provide PCCs with enough income to live well	2.50 (0.83)	2.50 (1.08)	0.00	1.000
5 Research-oriented students should probably not consider primary care	3.29 (0.69)	3.70 (1.06)	−1.34	.191
6 Our healthcare system only works well with PCCs playing an integral part	4.46 (0.66)	4.60 (0.52)	−0.61	.549
7 Research to improve health happens very often in primary care settings	3.75 (0.94)	3.90 (0.88)	−0.43	.670
8 Primary care specialties require knowledge that a subspecialist may not	3.71 (0.86)	3.60 (0.84)	0.34	.738
9 It is important to consider each patient in the context of his or her family	4.58 (0.50)	4.50 (0.53)	0.43	.667
10 Knowledge of family interactions is important in treating individual pts.	3.71 (0.69)	4.10 (0.74)	−1.48	.149
11 PCCs provide only a small fraction of all health care delivered in the United States.	3.88 (0.68)	4.10 (0.88)	−0.81	.425

^aInterest in primary care career was evaluated on 1 to 7 scale with 1 lowest and 7 highest.

^bAgreement with survey items was evaluated on a 1 to 5 scale: strongly disagree, disagree, unsure, agree, and strongly agree, respectively.

^cEqual variances assumed given significance >.05 for all survey items under Levene’s Test for Equality of Variances.

Survey items were not presented in the order listed above.

Abbreviations: PCC, primary care clinician