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Table 1 Top 5 most popular specialties pre-clerkship where n = 51, and post-clerkship where n = 63 (post-clerkship response in brackets)

From: The erosion of ambiguity tolerance and sustainment of perfectionism in undergraduate medical training: results from multiple samplings of a single cohort

Specialty

Rank 1

Rank 2

Rank 3

Rank 4

Rank 5

Family Medicine

15 (15)

13 (15)

4 (3)

6 (1)

5 (3)

Internal Medicine

8 (5)

4 (5)

9 (7)

6 (5)

5 (5)

Emergency Medicine

5 (3)

7 (12)

7 (3)

8 (9)

4 (2)

Anesthesiology

2 (1)

3 (2)

5 (5)

5 (5)

3 (2)

Pediatrics

4 (6)

6 (0)

0 (5)

3 (3)

2 (3)