TY - JOUR AU - Tran, Ulrich S. AU - Berger, Nina AU - Arendasy, Martin E. AU - Greitemeyer, Tobias AU - Himmelbauer, Monika AU - Hutzler, Florian AU - Kraft, Hans-Georg AU - Oettl, Karl AU - Papousek, Ilona AU - Vitouch, Oliver AU - Voracek, Martin PY - 2017 DA - 2017/05/03 TI - Unto the third generation: evidence for strong familial aggregation of physicians, psychologists, and psychotherapists among first-year medical and psychology students in a nationwide Austrian cohort census JO - BMC Medical Education SP - 81 VL - 17 IS - 1 AB - Medical students present higher numbers of physician relatives than expectable from the total population prevalence of physicians. Evidence for such a familial aggregation effect of physicians has emerged in investigations from the Anglo-American, Scandinavian, and German-speaking areas. In particular, past data from Austria suggest a familial aggregation of the medical, as well as of the psychological and psychotherapeutic, professions among medical and psychology undergraduates alike. Here, we extend prior related studies by examining (1) the extent to which familial aggregation effects apply to the whole nation-wide student census of all relevant (eight) public universities in Austria; (2) whether effects are comparable for medical and psychology students; (3) and whether these effects generalize to relatives of three interrelated health professions (medicine, psychology, and psychotherapy). SN - 1472-6920 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-017-0921-4 DO - 10.1186/s12909-017-0921-4 ID - Tran2017 ER -