Table 1.
Specialty aspired to in junior academics (n = 41) and in participants aspiring to another career in medicine (n = 363) according to gender
| Academic career | Other career in medicine | |||
|
Females n (%) |
Males n (%) |
Females n (%) |
Males n (%) |
|
| Specialty aspired to | ||||
| - Primary Care | 0 | 0 | 29 (14.7) | 20 (12.0) |
| - Internal Medicine | 1 (11.1) | 6 (18.8) | 56 (28.5) | 48 (29.0) |
| - Surgery | 3 (33.4) | 12 (37.5) | 11 (5.6) | 30 (18.1) |
| - Gynecology | 0 | 0 | 25 (12.7) | 1 (0.6) |
| - Anesthesiology | 1 (11.1) | 1 (3.1) | 18 (9.1) | 16 (9.6) |
| - Pediatrics | 2 (22.2) | 4 (12.5) | 23 (11.7) | 5 (3.0) |
| - Psychiatry | 0 | 0 | 15 (7.6) | 10 (6.0) |
| - Other specialty | 2 (22.2) | 5 (15.6) | 15 (7.6) | 27 (16.3) |
| - no clinical field | 0 | 4 (12.5) | 5 (2.5) | 9 (5.4) |
| Total | 9 (100.0) | 32 (100.0) | 197 (100.0) | 166 (100.0) |
No computation of significance possible because of too small cell sizes.