Gender differences in medical students’ motives and career choice

BMC Medical Education

Table 4 Logistic Regression on Choice of continuing medical education ¹ for all students, first stage students and second stage students (B-values, Odds Ratio, Wald statistics)

	All(N = 699)						First stage (N = 408)						Second stage (N = 291)
	Model 1			Model 2			Model 1			Model 2			Model 1			Model 2
	B	*Exp (B)*	*Wald*	B	*Exp (B)*	*Wald*	B	*Exp (B)*	*Wald*	B	*Exp (B)*	*Wald*	B	*Exp (B)*	*Wald*	B	*Exp (B)*	*Wald*
Gender ^2,5	0.55	1.74	4.09* ^a	−0.02	0.98	0.00	0.46	1.58	1.70	0.00	1.00	0.00	0.72	2.04	2.63	0.04	1.04	0.007
Stage of education ³	−0.02	0.99	0.00	−0.14	0.87	0.31
Living together ^4,5	0.67	1.95	6.69*	0.27	1.30	0.84	0.74	2.09	4.01*	0.64	1.90	2.63	0.71	2.04	4.00*	0.35	1.42	0.83
Profession-related motives (external)				−1.06	0.35	38.12***				−0.21	0.81	1.33				−0.70	0.50	9.18**
Life-style motives (external)				1.18	3.24	41.52***				0.91	2.48	15.37**				0.97	2.63	13.39***
Personal involvement (intrinsic)				0.64	1.90	6.81**				0.79	2.20	5.12*				0.64	1.90	3.16
Nagelkerke Pseudo R²	0.03			0.23			0.03			0.15			0.043			0.19
Chi² (df = 3 & df = 6)/ ^b Chi² (df = 2 & df = 5)	11.37**			93.40***			^b 5.67			^b33.75** *			^b 7.02*			^b32.02***

* p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01; *** p < 0.001.
^a p = 0.046.
¹ medical specialty = 0; general practice = 1; ² 0 = male; 1 = female; ³ first stage = 0; second stage = 1; ⁴ 0 = not living together; 1 = living together.
⁵ Controlled for gender x living together: p > .05.

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