Table 2.
Current Physician Mix in 2003-2004 compared to MD Student Interest
| Discipline | Current Physicians | Entering MD students | ||
| n | % | % | ||
| Urban Family Medicine | 26324 | 43.4 | 15.3 | X2 = 878.30, df = 1 p < 0.001 |
| Internal Medicine and medical subspecialties | 14969 | 24.7 | 28.9 | X2 = 25.72, df = 1 p < 0.001 |
| Surgery and surgical subspecialties |
6131 | 10.1 | 17.5 | X2 = 163.03, df = 1 p < 0.001 |
| Rural Family Medicine | 4962 | 8.2 | 10.6 | X2 = 21.39, df = 1 p < 0.001 |
| Psychiatry | 4,014 | 6.6 | 2.9 | X2 = 60.15, df = 1 p < 0.001 |
| Pediatrics | 2,152 | 3.6 | 15.3 | X2 = 1073.22, df = 1 p < 0.001 |
| Obstetrics and Gynecology | 1,593 | 2.6 | 3.8 | X2 = 14.57, df = 1 p < 0.001 |
| Emergency Medicine | 467 | 0.8 | 5.8 | X2 = 852.01, df = 1 p < 0.001 |
| Total | 60612 | 100 | 100 | |