Table 2.
Specialty preference of medical students and number of required doctors in one prefecture from two surveys
| Preference rate (%)a | p-valueb | Employed doctor survey | Hospital director survey | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Specialty | Men | Women | Total | Required | Lacking | Required | Lacking | |
| Internal medicine | 50.7 | 56.1 | 52.8 | 0.24 | 854.2 | 128.2 | 797.5 | 211.3 |
| General surgery | 31.3 | 16.0 | 25.4 | <0.01 | 335.5 | 60.5 | 287.6 | 45.3 |
| Pediatrics | 17.3 | 31.7 | 22.7 | <0.01 | 92.5 | 11.5 | 89.4 | 28.6 |
| Psychiatry | 12.6 | 18.0 | 14.7 | 0.10 | 161.0 | 11.0 | 150.3 | 34.4 |
| Orthopedics | 23.0 | 9.0 | 17.6 | <0.01 | 184.8 | 30.8 | 167.3 | 55.9 |
| Neurosurgery | 14.7 | 8.5 | 12.3 | 0.04 | 98.5 | 18.5 | 89.3 | 26.2 |
| Obstetrics & gynecology | 4.0 | 26.3 | 12.7 | <0.01 | 93.1 | 18.1 | 92.9 | 29.7 |
| Ophthalmology | 9.4 | 16.4 | 12.1 | 0.20 | 56.3 | 6.3 | 47.6 | 11.9 |
| Otolaryngology | 9.0 | 13.2 | 10.6 | 0.14 | 60.8 | 10.8 | 44.8 | 11.8 |
| Dermatology | 8.6 | 19.0 | 12.7 | <0.01 | 34.1 | 4.1 | 32.5 | 13.6 |
| Urology | 2.7 | 7.9 | 4.7 | <0.01 | 85.8 | 16.8 | 74.1 | 16.4 |
| Radiology | 9.0 | 9.0 | 9.0 | 0.99 | 84.7 | 8.7 | 74.0 | 17.2 |
| Plastic-cosmetic surgery | 5.3 | 13.2 | 8.4 | <0.01 | 8.7 | 0.7 | 15.1 | 3.2 |
| Anesthesiology | 12.0 | 15.9 | 13.5 | 0.22 | 80.5 | 14.5 | 75.3 | 29.0 |
| Emergency medicine | 22.3 | 14.4 | 19.3 | 0.03 | 33.0 | 9.0 | 37.0 | 31.4 |
a Proportion of students who responded "4: high probability" or "5: very high probability" of future choice (from scores 1 to 5)
b Comparison between men and women with chi-squared test