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Table 1 Favoured future career choice

From: Medical students' views about an undergraduate curriculum in psychiatry before and after clinical placements

Future career choice

Percentage of 4th years (n = 307)

Percentage of 5th years (n = 197)

p-value

General practice

29%

31%

 

Medicine

31.9%

24.4%

 

Surgery

18.6%

19.8%

 

Paediatrics

5.5%

8.1%

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Obstetrics and gynaecology

4.2%

5.6%

 

Psychiatry

2.6%

4.6%

 

Anaesthetics

4.2%

1.5%

 

Don't know

3.9%

5.1%

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