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Table 4 Stability of specialty choice from year 4 medical school to foundation year 2 post-graduation

From: The specialty choices of graduates from Brighton and Sussex Medical School: a longitudinal cohort study

FY2 specialty choice

Year 4 specialty choice

Percent (bootstrapped 95% confidence interval)

Paediatrics

Different

0

0

 

Same

4

100.0 (100.0, 100.0)

General practice

Different

4

16.0 (4.0, 32.0)

 

Same

21

84.0 (68.0, 96.0)

O&G

Different

1

25.0 (0.0, 75.0)

 

Same

3

75.0 (25.0, 100.0)

Medical specialties

Different

5

27.8 (11.1, 50.0)

 

Same

13

72.2 (50.0, 88.9)

Surgical specialties

Different

4

57.1 (16.7, 87.5)

 

Same

3

42.9 (12.5, 83.3)

Psychiatry

Different

4

66.7 (33.3, 100.0)

 

Same

2

33.3 (0.0, 66.7)

Acute care

Different

8

66.7 (38.5, 92.3)

 

Same

4

33.3 (7.7, 61.5)

  1. Radiology and public health excluded as only one respondent chose each. Bootstrapped 95% confidence intervals for the percentages show Paediatrics was significantly more stable than all specialties except O&G, and General Practice was significantly more stable than Psychiatry and Acute Care.