Table 2 Respondent’s backgrounds and their career intentions
From: What is different about medical students interested in non-clinical careers?
Future career intentions | Total | Pvalue | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Clinical practice | Non-clinical careers | |||
Gender | .512 | |||
Female | 403 (29.1%) | 57 (4.1%) | 460 (33.2%) | |
Male | 813 (58.6%) | 114 (8.2%) | 757 (66.8%) | |
Age (years) | < .001 | |||
20 or younger | 161 (12.0%) | 40 (3.0%) | 201 (15.0%) | |
21-25 | 759 (56.5%) | 87 (6.5%) | 846 (63.0%) | |
26-30 | 213 (15.9%) | 30 (2.2%) | 243 (18.1%) | |
31 or older | 48 (3.6%) | 5 (0.4%) | 53 (3.9%) | |
Entry level | .458 | |||
Undergraduate | 990 (71.4%) | 143 (10.3%) | 1,133 (81.7%) | |
Graduate | 226 (16.3%) | 27 (1.9%) | 253 (18.3%) | |
Year of study | .002 | |||
Premed 1 | 207 (14.9%) | 50 (3.6%) | 257 (18.5%) | |
Premed 2 | 242 (17.4%) | 34 (2.4%) | 276 (19.9%) | |
Year 1 | 268 (19.3%) | 34 (2.4%) | 302 (21.8%) | |
Year 2 | 239 (17.2%) | 32 (2.3%) | 271 (19.5%) | |
Year 3 | 158 (11.4%) | 14 (1.0%) | 172 (12.4%) | |
Year 4 | 103 (7.4%) | 7 (0.5%) | 110 (7.9%) | |
Total | 1,217 (87.7%) | 171 (12.3%) | 1,388 (100%) | |