Table 3.

Attitude towards medical research as a career at time of application to medical school and in final year in relation to intercalated degree being taken or not. Values are numbers (percentages) of students

	Application*			Final year†
	BSc (n=807)	No BSc (n=1531)		BSc (n=426)	No BSc (n=1000)
Definite intention to go into	28 (4)	47 (3)		12 (3)	5 (1)
Very attractive	198 (25)	292 (19)		44 (10)	37 (4)
Moderately attractive	230 (29)	478 (31)		100 (23)	140 (14)
Not very attractive	243 (30)	478 (31)		125 (29)	299 (30)
Definite intention not to go into	108 (13)	236 (15)		145 (34)	519 (52)

^*U=581 024, z=−2.45, P=0.014 for difference between BSc and no BSc (Mann-Whitney U test). 

^†U=1 753 770, z=−7.81, P<0.001 for difference between BSc and no BSc (Mann-Whitney U test).