Table 1 Most popular elective categories by stage
From: An analysis of free-choice electives in an undergraduate medical degree
Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 3 | Stage 4 | Total % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
In-programme | 294 | 414 | 407 | 167 | 1282 | 38.64% |
Applied language centre | 250 | 206 | 181 | 80 | 717 | 21.61% |
Public health, physiotherapy and population science | 19 | 83 | 50 | 64 | 216 | 6.51% |
Psychology | 98 | 22 | 39 | 7 | 166 | 5.00% |
Music | 8 | 27 | 38 | 29 | 102 | 3.07% |
Agriculture and food science | 0 | 4 | 71 | 11 | 86 | 2.59% |
Irish, celtic studies, Irish folklore and linguistics | 33 | 28 | 15 | 7 | 83 | 2.50% |
Nursing, midwifery and health systems | 5 | 2 | 19 | 54 | 80 | 2.41% |
Mathematical sciences | 21 | 33 | 13 | 8 | 75 | 2.26% |
Languages and literature | 54 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 74 | 2.23% |
Business | 27 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 42 | 1.27% |
Philosophy | 8 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 32 | 0.96% |
Other | 131 | 90 | 102 | 40 | 363 | 10.94% |