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

Table 6 Factors related to ‘not choosing a specialty’ (0 = no specialty chosen; 1 = specialty chosen)

Predictors		B (bootstrapped 95%CI)	Bootstrapped Standard error	p value	Bootstrapped p value	Odds ratio
(reference: 2007 cohort)	2008 cohort	−0.99 (−2.84, 0.17)	0.95	0.093	0.091	0.37
Personality	Neuroticism	−0.10 (−0.51, 0.183)	0.18	0.435	0.484	0.90
	Agreeableness	0.53 (0.17, 1.20)*	0.30	0.021	0.028	1.69
	Conscientiousness	0.40 (0.11, 0.86)*	0.20	0.005	0.004	1.49
(1 = monthly or less; 2 = once or twice; 3 = never)	Satisfaction (frequency considered leaving medicine in the past year)	0.55 (−0.59, 1.68)	0.56	0.169	0.253	1.73
	Constant	−10.31 (−23.77, 0.91)	6.230	0.017	0.037	0.00

Bootstrapping based on 1,000 samples. *significant at p<0.05 in a logistic regression.