Who wants to be a surgeon? A study of 300 first year medical students

BMC Medical Education

Table 1 Career Intentions of 300 First-year Medical Students (numbers and percentage choice according to sex, ethnicity and schooling).

*NUMBERS*	All	Men	Women	Chinese	Arab	African	All Asian	Caucasian	Not disclosed	Post Grad	Private	State
A&E	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
Sports Medicine	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
Anaesthetics	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	1
Pathology	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	3	0
Psychiatry	8	1	7	0	1	0	3	3	1	2	1	7
Obs & Gynae		1	8	0	0	0	2	6	1	0	4	4
Paediatrics	20	2	18	3	1	2	2	11	1	3	7	11
General Practice	32	7	25	2	1	1	11	17	1	3	11	17
Medicine	66	22	44	5	2	6	21	32	2	12	20	35
Don't Know	67	22	45	7	2	5	22	27	2	10	24	33
Surgery	91	58	33	11	2	6	28	39	4	16	38	33
Totals	300	115	185	28	9	20	89	142	12	48	110	142
*PERCENT*	All	Men	Women	Chinese	Arab	African	All Asian	Caucasian	Not disclosed	Post Grad	Private	State
A&E	0.3	0.9	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.7	0.0	0.0	0.9	0.0
Sports Medicine	0.3	0.9	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.7
Anaesthetics	0.7	0.0	1.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.4	0.0	2.1	0.9	0.7
Pathology	1.0	0.0	1.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.1	0.0	2.1	2.7	0.0
Psychiatry	2.7	0.9	3.8	0.0	11.1	0.0	3.4	2.1	8.3	4.2	0.9	4.9
Obs & Gynae	3.0	0.9	4.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.2	4.2	8.3	0.0	3.6	2.8
Paediatrics	6.7	1.7	9.7	10.7	11.1	10.0	2.2	7.7	8.3	6.3	6.4	7.7
General Practice	10.7	6.1	13.5	7.1	11.1	5.0	12.4	12.0	8.3	6.3	10.0	12.0
Medicine	22.0	19.1	23.8	17.9	22.2	30.0	23.6	22.5	16.7	25.0	18.2	24.6
Don't Know	22.3	19.1	24.3	25.0	22.2	25.0	24.7	19.0	16.7	20.8	21.8	23.2
Surgery	30.3	50.4	17.8	39.3	22.2	30.0	31.5	27.5	33.3	33.3	34.5	23.2
Totals	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

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