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Table 4 Characteristics of students interested in surgical specialties

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

 

Surgical

Subspecialties

Others

ENT

Others

Cardiology

Others

(n = 72; 23%)

(n = 245; 77%)

(n = 71;22%)

(n = 246; 78%)

(n = 84; 27%)

(n = 233; 73%)

Women/men

26%/74%

61%*/39%

38%/62%

58%*/42%

39%/61%

58%/42%

Single

50%

52%

51%

45%

55%

51%

Internal Medicine

15%

35%‡

14%

35%*

52%

22%‡

Pediatrics

17%

42%‡

27%

39%

32%

37%

Family Medicine

6%

26%‡

13%

23%*

16%

24%

Sub Int. Medicine

19%

36%‡

23%

35%

46%

27%‡

Cardiology

33%

26%

30%

27%

100%

0%‡

Psychiatry

3%

16%*

9%

14%

8%

17%

Anesthesiology

11%

6%*

9%

7%

12%

6%‡

Sub Surgery

100%

0%‡

45%

17%‡

29%

22%*

General Surgery

44%

5%‡

24%

14%*

17%

16%

Orthopedic Surg

42%

6%‡

33%

10%‡

12%

16%

Ophthalmology

24%

10%*

30%

7%‡

13%

14%

Radiology

13%

10%

16%

10%

8%

11%

ENT

44%

17%‡

100%

0%‡

25%

22%

Dermatology

8%

7%

10%

6%*

8%

6%

Plastic Surgery

29%

10%‡

37%

8%‡

12%

16%

Emergency Med

29%

20%

29%

18%*

34%

18%‡

Pathology

3%

1%

3%

0%

1%

1%

OB/GYN

40%

31%

37%

32%

32%

34%

Research

13%

10%

16%

10%

17%

9%*

*p < 0.001 vs Others

p < 0.05 vs Others

  

Multiple Regression

Multiple Regression

Multiple Regression

Specialties: r = 0.80

Specialties: r = 0.61

Specialties: r = 0.65

+General Surgery: p < 0.0001

+Plastic Surgery: p < 0.0001

+Sub Internal Med: p < 0.001

+Orthopedic Surgery: p < 0.0001

+Orthopedic Surgery: p < 0.0001

+ENT: p < 0.04

+Opthalmology: p < 0.041

+Ophthalmology: p < 0.001

+Sub Surgery: p < 0.001

+Cardiology: p < 0.001

+Emergency Medicine: p < 0.0001

+Ophthalmology: p < 0.011

-Pediatrics: p < 0.015

+Cardiology: p < 0.048

+Emergency Medicine: p < 0.009

-Cardiology: p < 0.001

+General Surgery: p < 0.041

+internal Medicine: p < 0.0001

 

-Psychiatry: p < 0.039

-Dermatology: p < 0.024

-Internal Medicine: p < 0.018

-Plastic Surgery: p < 0.047

  1. Values are the percentage of important/very important on the 5-point Likert scale
  2. Bold values are significantly greater than the other member of the pair (unpaired t-test)