Table 1 Medical students’ intended places of practice just after graduation, 2015
Variable | Characteristics | Frequency | Percent |
|---|---|---|---|
Career choice | Patient/Clinical care | 672 | 70.1 |
Academic/researcher | 162 | 16.9 | |
Management | 76 | 7.9 | |
Others | 24 | 2.5 | |
Setting | Academics/teaching hospitals | 430 | 44.8 |
Private -clinical | 165 | 17.2 | |
NGO-non-clinical | 152 | 15.8 | |
Zonal hospital | 104 | 10.8 | |
District hospital | 53 | 5.5 | |
Management- government | 17 | 1.8 | |
Others | 5 | 0.5 | |
Place | Big cities | 387 | 40.4 |
Zonal towns | 201 | 21.0 | |
Underserved | 113 | 11.8 | |
Anywhere | 102 | 10.6 | |
District capitals | 83 | 8.7 | |
Do not want to practice | 38 | 4.0 | |
Other | 5 | 0.5 |