Youth/School and Educational/Professional Volunteer Activities by Community Practice and Faculty Family Physicians (N = 266) within Last 2 Years
Activities | % Participating | ||
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Community Practice(n = 145) | Faculty(n = 121) | P value | |
Youth/school volunteer activity | |||
Mentoring students in summer service projects | 20.1 | 23.3 | 0.53 |
Coaching or sponsoring children’s sports team | 15.9 | 8.3 | 0.06 |
Serving as team physician for school or community sports | 17.4 | 22.5 | 0.30 |
Leading local youth organization (eg, Boy/Girl Scouts) | 13.9 | 9.2 | 0.23 |
Lifetime (mean participation) | 1.6 | 1.8 | 0.76 |
Educational/profession service activity | |||
Member of one or more professional organizations | 97.9 | 97.4 | 0.81 |
Teaching medical or other health sciences students | 75.5 | 89.7 | 0.00 |
Serving on committee of local, state or national health organization | 28.2 | 51.7 | 0.00 |
Serving on board of directors for local, state, or national health organization | 12.5 | 30.1 | 0.00 |
Committee chair of a local, state, or national health organization | 6.3 | 19.8 | 0.00 |
Serving as elected officer for local, state, or national health organization | 8.4 | 12.9 | 0.25 |
Working in international medical service (eg, Doctors Without Borders, medical missionary) | 4.2 | 8.7 | 0.15 |
Published article in peer-reviewed journal on community service | 0.7 | 7.8 | 0.01 |
Lifetime (mean participation) | 3.3 | 4.4 | 0.00 |