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Table 1 Trends among UK medical graduates in early first choices for eventual careers in neurology

From: Junior doctors’ early career choices do not predict career destination in neurology: 40 years of surveys of UK medical graduates

Year after graduation

Cohorts (years of graduation)

Statistical tests

1974–1983

1993–2002

2005–2015

All cohorts

Linear trend (χ21, p)

Heterogeneity (χ22, p)

Year 1

0.6%

0.9%

1.5%

1.0%

49.8, < 0.001

52.6, < 0.001

Year 3

0.7%

1.1%

0.9%

0.9%

2.9, 0.09

11.9, 0.003

Year 5

0.7%

1.0%

0.9%

0.9%

1.0, 0.32

2.8, 0.25

  1. For doctors surveyed one, three and five years after graduation the table shows the percentages of doctors who specified neurology as their first choice of eventual specialty
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