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Table 4 Mentors’ discipline and students’ career intentions

From: The medical students’ perspective of faculty and informal mentors: a questionnaire study

Mentors’ discipline

#1 CaRMS ranking

P-value

Family medicine

Royal College

Faculty Mentors

Family Medicine

31 % (13)

19 % (9)

0.18

Royal College

69 % (29)

81 % (39)

Informal Mentors

Family Medicine

65 % (15)

19 % (5)

0.001

Royal College

35 % (8)

82 % (22)

  1. P-values are calculated using Chi-square. With three students not reporting their CaRMS ranking, the analysis was restricted to 90 students among faculty mentors and 50 students for informal mentors