Table 4 Top 10 career choice among students in psychiatry major and clinical medicine major (listed as descending selection rate in each group)
From: Career choice and influential factors among medical students majoring in psychiatry in China
Specialty | Psychiatry 4510 (no. [%]) | Specialty | Clinical medicine 3792 (no. [%]) |
|---|---|---|---|
Psychiatry | 2556 (56.67) | Undecided | 989 (26.08) |
Undecided | 555 (12.31) | Internal Medicine | 589 (15.53) |
Neurology | 537 (11.91) | Surgery | 507 (13.37) |
Neurosurgery | 233 (5.17) | Obstetrics and Gynecology | 247 (6.51) |
Internal Medicine | 150 (3.33) | Orthopedic Surgery | 241 (6.36) |
Surgery | 93 (2.06) | Emergency Medicine | 204 (5.38) |
Anesthesiology | 54 (1.20) | Thoracic Surgery | 119 (3.14) |
Obstetrics and Gynecology | 49 (1.09) | Ophthalmology | 110 (2.90) |
Emergency Medicine | 45 (1.00) | Pediatrics | 97 (2.56) |
Don’t plan to practice medicine | 39 (0.86) | Neurosurgery | 94 (2.48) |