Table 3.2.
Frequency distribution of "statements against" a career in medicine (n = 1,703) given by residents of Internal medicine (n = 197), Surgical specialities (n = 106), High-technology medicine (n = 51), Paediatrics (n = 48), Psychiatry (n = 27), other specialities (n = 53), and residents not yet decided (n = 85)
| Statements against a career in medicine | ||||||||
| Category |
Internal medicine n (%) |
Surgical specialities n (%) |
High-technology medicine n (%) |
Paediatrics n (%) |
Psychiatry n (%) |
Other specialities n (%) |
Not yet decided n (%) |
p |
| Personal experiences in day-to-day working life | 83 (14.3) | 29 (9.0) | 17 (11.3) | 15 (10.4) | 10 (12.7) | 15 (9.2) | 35 (13.3) | n.s. |
| Interpersonal experiences in professional relationships | 32 (5.5) | 24 (7.4) | 11 (7.3) | 16 (11.1) | 4 (5.1) | 12 (7.4) | 15 (5.7) | n.s. |
| General work-related structural conditions | 182 (31.4) | 109 (33.6) | 38 (25.3) | 51 (35.4) | 21 (26.6) | 48 (29.4) | 92 (35.0) | n.s. |
| Further training and speciality qualification conditions | 36 (6.2) | 32 (9.9) | 18 (12.0) | 6 (4.2) | 14 (17.7) | 13 (8.0) | 20 (7.6) | 0.01 |
| Enjoyment/Meaning | 3 (0.5) | 1 (0.3) | 1 (0.7) | 1 (0.7) | 0 (0) | 1 (0.6) | 3 (1.1) | 1) |
| Social prestige and health-policy aspects | 130 (22.4) | 59 (18.2) | 29 (19.3) | 22 (15.3) | 17 (21.5) | 43 (26.4) | 55 (20.9) | n.s. |
| Income | 63 (10.9) | 47 (14.5) | 16 (10.7) | 20 (13.9) | 9 (11.4) | 24 (14.7) | 19 (7.2) | n.s. |
| Leisure/Private life | 50 (8.6) | 22 (6.8) | 20 (13.3) | 13 (9.0) | 3 (3.8) | 7 (4.3) | 23 (8.7) | n.s. |
| Not codable | 1 (0.2) | 1 (0.3) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (1.3) | 0 (0) | 1 (0.4) | n.s. |
| Total | 580 (100.0) | 324 (100.0) | 150 (100.0) | 144 (100.0) | 79 (100.0) | 163 (100.0) | 263 (100.0) | |
1) Computation of Chi2 is not calculable because the total is too low (n = 1)