Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
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To examine the choices of career paths of women in internal medicine, specifically to determine (1) whether women continue to prefer primary care practice more often than men do and (2) whether differences in career paths between men and women result from differences in the natures of the training programs they complete. ⋯ The women pursued primary-care-oriented internal medicine to a significantly greater degree than did the men, regardless of the type of training program completed (primary care or traditional).