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Table 1 Criteria for selecting specialties

From: Using medical specialty and selection criteria clusters to study specialty selection by Israeli medical students

Selection criteria

(n = 317)

Interesting Specialty

91%

Immediate Satisfaction

53% (1)*

Performing Procedures

48% (1)

Much Action

37% (1)

Operating Room Time

35% (1)

Controllable Lifestyle

71% (2)

Work only during the Daytime

29% (2)

Work Outside the Hospital

12% (2)

Specialty with Long-term Care

40% (3)

Prestigious Specialty (colleagues)

13% (4)

Prestigious Specialty (population)

11% (4)

Work Only in Hospital

20% (5)

Family Orientation

38%

On-Calls as an Attending

35%

Medical Administration

23%

Without Long-term Care

14%

  1. Percentages are important/very important answers on a 5 point-Likert Scale
  2. *Values in parenthesis are the factor groupings obtained from factor analysis