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Table 2 Motivation for medicine and the effect on future specialty

From: Future medical student practice intentions: the South Africa experience

 

Total

Primary Care

Family Medicine

Non-Primary Care

Don’t Know

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

Total

 Altruistic

435

67%

153

78%

53

85%

214

58%

68

76%

 Intrinsic

217

33%

42

22%

9

15%

153

42%

22

24%

Year 1

 Altruistic

216

63%

68

93%

31

94%

125

52%

23

79%

 Intrinsic

127

37%

5

7%

2

6%

116

48%

6

21%

Year 4

 Altruistic

120

76%

50

76%

17

74%

47

78%

23

74%

 Intrinsic

37

24%

16

24%

6

26%

13

22%

8

26%

Year 6

 Altruistic

99

65%

35

63%

5

83%

42

64%

22

73%

 Intrinsic

53

35%

21

38%

1

17%

24

36%

8

27%

  1. Source: Authors’ own work