All with county birth origins in the Masterfile from all medical school sources
Pearson Correlations Comparing Birth Origin County Characteristics and Career Choice
|
1987 – 1996 Class Years |
All Admits |
Non-FM Admits |
FM Admits |
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1187 U.S. Counties and 1969 or 1970 Demographics |
Correlation |
p value |
Correlation |
p value |
Correlation |
p value |
|
1969 Per Capita Income |
0.160 |
1.43E-08 |
0.194 |
7.78E-12 |
-0.028 |
0.17177 |
|
Pop Per Sq Mile |
0.316 |
3.41E-29 |
0.358 |
1.5E-37 |
0.040 |
0.08244 |
|
% College Educated |
0.372 |
1.46E-40 |
0.397 |
2.36E-46 |
0.146 |
2.3E-07 |
|
% Professional & Manager |
0.393 |
1.86E-45 |
0.406 |
1.17E-48 |
0.205 |
4.6E-13 |
|
% HS Grads in County |
0.190 |
1.83E-11 |
0.191 |
1.77E-11 |
0.124 |
9.9E-06 |
Including the counties with less than 8 admissions only strengthened the correlations. Removing over 2000 counties and 7395 physicians decreased individual county variations and insured a more realistic and conservative measure. Omission of the top 20 counties with over 1000 admissions each did not change the correlations. Direct measures such as parent income, education, and occupation or student MCAT scores are likely to have much higher correlations.
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