Nature or nurture: The effect of undergraduate rural clinical rotations on pre-existent rural career choice likelihood as measured by the SOMERS Index
Australian Journal of Rural Health, 04/27/2012
Somers GT et al. – While rural rotations are an important component of undergraduate medical training, it is the nature of the students choosing to study in rural locations rather than experiences during the course that is the greater influence on rural career choice. In order to improve the rural medical workforce crisis, medical schools should attract more students with pre–existent likelihood to choose a rural career. The SOMERS Index was found to be a useful tool for this quantitative analysis.
