Is Medical Student Choice of a Primary Care Residency Influenced by Debt?

Is Medical Student Choice of a Primary Care Residency Influenced by Debt?:

Mean total debt for the study population was $89,807 (SD = 54,925). Graduates entering PC did not have significantly less total debt than those entering NPC ($87,206 vs $91,430; P = .09). Further, total debt was not a predictor of a PC residency after adjusting for medical school, year of graduation, and years of training in residency (P = .64).

And another take, similarly suggests medical school costs as independent of specialty choice. I can imagine several reasons for this, and I think the grand experiment could be somewhat as suggested - try major reductions in specialty income and increases in PC income and see what happens. Only half joking here.

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