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Question is in title.
Are disadvantaged applicants expected to practice primary care locally?
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I don't understand the question. If you apply disadvantaged, that has no bearing on your future career goals. It's just an opportunity to share about disadvantages that you've encountered during your upbringing.
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On here though, I've seen people make it seem like when one applies disadvantaged...... nevermind for now.
I cannot articulate what I mean. Sorry if my question is unclear.
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I think you are implying that disadvantaged applicants are expected to later give back to their community by being more likely to practice in low-income areas, etc similar to the URM reality. In a few URM threads that has been refuted. Those raised in economic adversity are not more likely to practice in underserved areas in the same way that URM physicians are more likely to serve underserved communities. It is one of the reasons that adcoms and schools do not just consider SES in applicants.
Hopefully someone will find a study to discount it. On a state-by-state level, however, it is possible that rural programs enroll a higher number of disadvantaged students that later go back to their community.
Hopefully someone will find a study to discount it. On a state-by-state level, however, it is possible that rural programs enroll a higher number of disadvantaged students that later go back to their community.
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There are two reasons to care that applicants had a disadvantaged childhood:
1) to take into account "distance traveled" and perhaps "cut some slack" to those students who entered college behind their peers due to deprivation in childhood (poor schools, minimal family support, lack of role models)
2) to increase the proportion of physicians who are more likely than other physicians to choose to work in underserved areas similar to the area/population where they were raised. This is why the disadvantaged section asks if you think that the area where you grew up was underserved.
1) to take into account "distance traveled" and perhaps "cut some slack" to those students who entered college behind their peers due to deprivation in childhood (poor schools, minimal family support, lack of role models)
2) to increase the proportion of physicians who are more likely than other physicians to choose to work in underserved areas similar to the area/population where they were raised. This is why the disadvantaged section asks if you think that the area where you grew up was underserved.
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And underserved areas need both primary care docs and specialists.
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Ahhh, I guess I understand. Okay cool, thanks everyone! I realize that was a poorly worded question lol
