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Table 12 Number (%) of applications for specialty training by type of CT1/ST1 medicine programme

From: Impact of accelerated, graduate-entry medicine courses: a comparison of profile, success, and specialty destination between graduate entrants to accelerated or standard medicine courses in UK

Specialty

4-yr Apply

5-yr Apply

Chi-square p

4-yr Appointed

5-yr Appointed

Chi-square

p

ACCS (acute care common stem (acute medicine, anaesthesia, emergency medicine)

95 (6.1%)

50 (5.0%)

2.248

p = .134

 

Anaesthetics

15

0

10.11

p = .001

 

Core medicine

325 (20.7%)

205 (20.5%)

.856

p = .355

155/325

(47.7%)

85/205

(41.5%)

1.711

p = .191

Core psychiatry

80 (5.2%)

55 (5.7%)

.052

p = .819

 

Core surgery

145 (9.1%)

100 (9.9%)

.019

p = .891

35/145

(24.1%)

30/100

(30.0%)

1.018

p = .313

General Practice

605 (38.2%)

395 (39.6%)

.369

p = .543

110/605

(18.5%)

50/395

(12.7%)

7.73

p = .005

Paediatrics

105 (6.7%)

60 (6.2%)

.779

p = .377

10/105

(9.5%)

5/60

(8.3%)

.787

p = .375

O & G (obstetrics and gynaecology)

50 (3.1%)

35 (3.6%)

.189

p = .664

 

Radiology

50 (3.1%)

35 (3.4%)

.027

p = .869

 

Broad-based training

30 (1.9%)

20

.000

p = .989

 

Ophthalmology

30 (1.8%)

15

.675

p = .411

 

Histopathology

25 (1.5%)

15

.386

p = .534

 

Total

1585 (100%)

773 (100%)

    
  1. Note that because of statistical disclosure controls, frequencies are rounded and percentages sometimes omitted (see Methods). All chi-square statistics have 1 df