The experiences, attitudes and understanding of research amongst medical students at an Australian medical school

BMC Medical Education

Table 1 Demographics of survey respondents

	Respondents, n (%)
Gender (%)
Male	186 (29.5)
Female	437 (69.4)
Other	7 (1.1)
Age (years) (%)
18–21	382 (54.5)
22–25	277 (39.5)
26–29	32 (4.6)
30+	10 (1.4)
Type of enrolment (%)
Direct-entry	568 (79.3)
Graduate-entry	146 (20.7)
Year level (%)
1	133 (18.9)
2^a	169 (24.0)
3	117 (16.6)
4	137 (19.5)
5	109 (15.5)
Bachelor of Medical Science (Honours)	35 (5.0)
PhD	4 (0.6)
Type of medical place (%)
Commonwealth Supported Place	362 (51.4)
Bonded Medical Place	136 (19.3)
Extended Rural Cohort	53 (7.5)
Full Fee Paying	153 (21.7)

^a Direct-entry students are referred to as years one through to five, whereas graduate-entry students are referred to as years A through to D. For presentation purposes, direct-entry and graduate-entry students were grouped together by their relevant year level (e.g. 2nd year direct-entry and 1st year graduate-entry students [Year A] at Monash University are both labelled as “Year 2”)

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