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Table 4 First preference vocational practice intentions

From: The medical schools outcomes database project: Australian medical student characteristics

 

CMSQ

EQ

N = 22,126 (%)

N = 8509 (%)

Adult Medicine/Internal Medicine/Physician

1562 (10.0)

1357 (18.0)

Anaesthesia

408 (2.6)

633 (8.4)

Dermatology

377 (2.4)

128 (1.7)

Emergency Medicine

1282 (8.2)

617 (8.2)

General Practice

2081 (13.3)

1003 (13.3)

Intensive Care Medicine

183 (1.2)

188 (2.5)

Medical Administration

56 (0.4)

20 (0.3)

Non-Specialist Hospital Practice

52 (0.3)

7 (0.1)

Obstetrics and Gynaecology

886 (5.7)

488 (6.5)

Occupational Medicine

8 (0.1)

7 (0.1)

Ophthalmology

397 (2.5)

187 (2.5)

Paediatrics and Child Health

2402 (15.3)

717 (9.5)

Pathology

289 (1.8)

66 (0.8)

Psychiatry

507 (3.2)

180 (2.4)

Public Health Medicine

149 (1.0)

29 (0.4)

Radiology

273 (1.7)

141 (1.9)

Rehabilitation Medicine

63 (0.4)

15 (0.2)

Surgery

4127 (26.4)

1413 (18.8)

Other

549 (3.5)

335 (4.4)

Missing/no response

6475*

978

  1. Percentages are expressed as percentage of valid responses (i.e. excluding missing responses).
  2. *Includes 1,684 responding ‘not yet decided’ in the 2005, 2006, 2007 commencing questionnaires, after which the ‘not yet decided’ option was removed from subsequent questionnaires as a response option.