Students’ intentions to practice primary care are associated with their motives to become doctors: a longitudinal study

Table 1 Relation between students’ motives to become doctors and primary care versus non-primary care career intentions

Motive	Coefficient	Standard error	Degrees of freedom	t-value	p-value
(Intercept)	−4.724	2.686	445	− 1.759	0.079
Private practice	0.547	0.123	445	4.447	< 0.0001
Altruism	0.726	0.170	445	4.266	< 0.0001
Academic interest	−0.361	0.117	445	−3.074	0.002
Prestige	−0.381	0.124	445	−3.069	0.002
Cure disease	−0.359	0.176	445	−2.037	0.042
Vocation	−0.083	0.107	445	−0.769	0.442
Saving lives	0.061	0.166	445	0.367	0.714
Academic year	0.421	0.152	445	2.765	0.006
Female gender	1.127	0.465	212	2.426	0.016
Age	−0.055	0.121	445	−0.454	0.650

Estimated non-standardized coefficients from a generalized linear mixed model comparing primary care to non-primary care career intentions (model 1). Estimated variance of random effects σ ̂ = 2.58

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