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Lifestyle as a Factor in Medical Students' Career Choices
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To the Editor: Dr Dorsey and colleagues1 found that lifestyle was a stronger predictor of recent changes in US medical students' career choice than were duration of residency training, anticipated income, and work hours. Although the authors found that student interest in anesthesiology appeared to increase dramatically during the past 6 years, this may be explained by other factors they did not include in their statistical model.
In 1992, US medical students matched 926 positions in anesthesiology, similar to prior years, and similar to the 904 students who matched in 2002.2 An abrupt decrease in US medical student interest followed predictions in 1994 of anesthesia physician oversupply and risk of unemployment.3 When these predictions failed to materialize, medical students began showing an interest in anesthesiology at a rate similar to a decade ago. The nadir in medical student interest occurred in 1996, with 169 matching students,2 the first year of . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Charles Schrock, MD
Department of Anesthesiology
Washington University
St Louis, Mo
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