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Table 2 Characteristics of students interested in various medical specialties

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

   

Internal

Family

Emergency

 

Pediatrics

Others

Medicine

Others

Medicine

Others

Medicine

Others

 

(n = 110; 36%)

(n = 207; 64%)

(n = 94; 30%)

(n = 223; 70%)

(n = 68; 21%)

(n = 249;79%)

(n = 67;21%)

(n = 250;79%)

Women/Men

66%/34%*

46/54%

53%/47%

53/47%%

66%/34%‡

39%/61%*

46%/54%

55%/45%

Single

47%

49%

64%‡

47%

43%

54%

61%

50%

Internal Medicine

32%

32%

100%*

0%

33%

30%

38%

28%

Pediatrics

100%*

0%

33%

37%

56%*

31%

27%

39%

Family Medicine

33%*

14%

23%

21%

100%*

0%

15%

23%

Sub Int. Medicine

34%

32%

68%*

17%

40%‡

30%

33%

32%

Cardiology

25%

29%

48%*

19%

20%‡

30%

42%*

23%

Psychiatry

18%‡

10%

15%

12%

20%‡

11%

11%

14%

Anesthesiology

5%

9%

9%

7%

3%

8%

18%*

4%

General Surgery

7%*

22%

12%*

18%

5%*

20%

31%*

12%

Sub Surgery

11%*

30%

12%*

29%

6%‡

29%

32%‡

22%

Plastic Surgery

10%*

17%

8%*

18%

9%*

17%

25%‡

12%

Orthopedic Surg

6%*

20%

3%‡

20%

2%*

19%

19%

14%

Ophthalmology

12%

14%

7%*

17%

11%

14%

20%

12%

ENT

17%

26%

11%*

28%

16%‡

25%

30%*

21%

Dermatology

7%

7%

8%

7%

3%

8%

8%

7%

OB/GYN

31%

34%

23%

38%

38%

32%

30%

34%

Radiology

11%

10%

6%

13%

13%

10%

11%

11%

Emergency Med

16%

25%

28%

19%

15%

24%

100%*

0%

Research

14%

10%

14%*

10%

13%

11%

13%

11%

 

*p < 0.001 vs Others

  

‡p < 0.05 vs Others

Multiple

Specialties: r = 0.45

Specialties: r = 0.75

 

Specialties: r = 0.48

Specialties: r = 0.52

Regression

+Family Medicine: p < 0.002

+Cardiology: p < 0.0001

+Dermatology: p < 0.031

+General Surgery: p < 0.001

-General Surgery: p < 0.004

+Sub Int Med: p < 0.0001

+Sub IntMed: p < 0.007

+Anesthesiology: p < 0.0001

-Pathology: p < 0.011

-Sub Surgery: p < 0.025

+Psychiatry: p < 0.002

+Cardiology: p < 0.001

 

-Ophthalmology: p < 0.01

+Gynecology: p < 0.009

+ENT: p < 0.0001

 

+Pediatrics: p < 0.001

+Sub Surgery: p < 0.011

+ Positive Correlation

- Negative Correlation

  1. Sub Int. Medicine – Subspecialties of Internal Medicine (e.g. endocrinology, gastroenterology, pulmonology, etc.)
  2. Sub Surgery – Surgical Subspecialties (e.g. urology, cardiothoracic surgery, vascular surgery, etc.)
  3. ENT - otolaryngology
  4. Specialties are arranged according to the results of the factor analysis (Fig. 1)
  5. Values are the percentage of strong/very strong inclinations on the 5-point Likert scale
  6. Bold values are significantly greater than the other member of the pair (unpaired t-test)
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