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Table 4 Factors Impacting Mean Reported Proportion of Interviewers Asking about the Scholarly Project

From: The impact of medical student research as a discussion topic during the residency interview process

 

Proportion of Interviewers Asking about SP (%, SD)

p-value

Type of Specialty

0.2221

 Primary Care

33% (28.1)

 Non-Primary Care

23% (25.6)

Competitiveness of Specialty

0.2856

 More Competitive

18% (26.3)

 Less Competitive

29% (29.9)

Publication Status

0.9005

 Published

27% (27.0)

 Not Published

26% (27.1)

Presentation Status

0.1876

 Presented

34% (30.4)

 Not Presented

23% (24.1)

Topic Relatedness to Specialty

0.4553

 Topic Related

30% (27.2)

 Topic Unrelated

24% (26.7)

Amount of Research Undertaken

0.0237

 Additional Research

50% (26.2)

 Only Scholarly Project

29% (28.4)

Type of Residency Programs

0.0054

 Almost All - More than Half Academic Programs

31% (27.9)

 None - Less than half Academic Programs

22% (25.5)