Factors important to students in selecting a residency program

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Abstract
A 22-item questionnaire , designed to assess the factors students considered important when they ranked residency programs , was distributed to the 1988 senior class of Tulane University School of Medicine just before the submission deadline of the National Residency Matching Program . Completed surveys were obtained from 111 of the 157 graduating students ( approximately 71 %) and were representative of the entire class in terms of sex , age , race , marital status , and anticipated field of specialization . Results of this investigation suggest that the satisfaction of a program's house officers and the seniors ' general impression at the interview were the most important selection factors of the matriculating seniors surveyed . Diversity of the training experience and geographic location were also important selection factors . House officer benefits and salary were low-priority factors in the seniors ' program selections .

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