Table 2.

Bivariate relationships between background characteristics, attitudes towards future work and general practice (mean score) and gender of medical students of the Maastricht University in 2002/03.

	Before the clerkship			After the clerkship
	Mean (SD)			Mean (SD)
	Male	Female	P value	Male	Female	P value
Likelihood to become a GP (1 = not likely, 5 = highly likely)	2.4(.7)	2.9(.9)	.00	2.7 (.9)	3.1 (1.1)	.003
Background characteristics (0 = no,1 = yes)
Work experience in patient care	.3 (.4)	.6 (.4)	.00
Other health care education	.3 (.4)	.4 (.4)	.084
Having considered allied profession	.1 (.3)	.3 (.4)	.001
Preferred patients category and type of work (1 = not interested, 5 = interested)
Chronic patients and palliative care	3 (.7)	3.5 (.6)	.003	3(.7)	3.5(.6)	.00
Acute patient care and technology-orie oriented work	4 (.6)	3.6 (.6)	.001	4.2(.6)	3.8(.6)	.002
Preferred work conditions (1 = not important, 5 = important)
Prestige orientation	2.65(.8)	2.15(.8)	.00	2.9(.7)	2.45(.8)	.00
Controllable lifestyle orientation	2.95(.9)	3.4(.8)	.001	2.85(.9)	3.5(.8)	.00
Assessment of becoming a general practitioner (1 = not attractive, 5 = attractive)
Work intrinsic	3.8(.6)	4(.5)	.00	3.8(.6)	3.8(.6)	.125
Work extrinsic	2.6(.6)	2.6 (.5)	.399	3(.6)	3(.6)	.453
Work conditions	3.2(.8)	3.3(.8)	.618	3.5(.9)	3.5(.8)	.586

ANOVA was performed. P- values are two-sided. N = 175.