Career choices for cardiology: cohort studies of UK medical graduates

BMC Medical Education

Table 2 Percentages of doctors who originally chose cardiology and were later working in cardiology*

	Specialty destination: year 10 (1974–96) and year 7 (1999, 2000)
	Men			Women			Total
Career choices	%	n	N	%	n	N	%	n	N
Year 1	35.2	38	108	28.6	10	35	33.6	48	143
Year 3	63.0	97	154	42.3	22	52	57.8	119	206
Year 5	87.3	131	150	87.1	27	31	87.3	158	181

* Ten years after qualification (1974–1996 cohorts) or seven years after (1999 and 2000 cohorts).
N denotes the number who originally chose cardiology, and n the number who later worked in it.

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