Student-run Clinic Participation and Likelihood of Practicing Primary Care: A Meta-Analysis

2026-01-27 medical education Title + abstract only

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ImportanceThe United States is facing a projected shortage of 40,000 primary care physicians by 2034. Student-run clinics (SRCs) are widely regarded as service-learning environments that may encourage students to enter a primary care specialty, but prior studies have yielded conflicting results and are limited to non-generalizable, single site analyses. ObjectiveTo compare likelihood of practice in a primary care specialty between students who did and did not participate in an SRC via pooled me...