Role models' perceptions of themselves and their influence on students' specialty choices

Academic Medicine : Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
D M AmbrozyF T Stritter

Abstract

To examine the perceptions of faculty role models to learn whether their perceptions of role models' behaviors are congruent with those of their students. In 1996 a survey was mailed to 210 student-identified faculty role models at the University of Washington School of Medicine and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. The nominees were asked to rate to what extent each of 32 student-identified role model characteristics was representative of their behavior. They were then asked to rank order the characteristics they felt were most important to model for students. The role models were also asked to rate how much influence they perceived themselves to have on their students' specialty choices. A final, open-ended question inquired about the single characteristics they modeled to students that most influenced the students' specialty choices. The role models' specialties were grouped as either primary care (PC) or non-primary care (NPC). Data were analyzed with several statistical methods. Of the 210 mailed surveys, a total of 177 were returned, for a response rate of 84%. The role models perceived their behaviors much like their students did; the role models' self-ratings were generally high for all...Continue Reading

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