Table 3.
Specialty profile in September 1995 of respondents from 1977 qualifiers who were in medical employment in United Kingdom and abroad. Values are numbers (percentages)
| Specialty group | United Kingdom
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Abroad
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men (n=1418) | Women (n=734) | Men (n=123 ) | Women (n=53 ) | ||||
| General practice | 622 (43.9) | 342 (46.6) | 33 (27) | 20 (38) | |||
| Medical specialties | 175 (12.3) | 70 (9.5) | 21 (17) | 4 (8) | |||
| Paediatrics | 27 (1.9) | 20 (2.7) | 5 (4) | 4 (8) | |||
| Accident and emergency | 14 (1.0) | 4 (0.5) | 1 (1) | 0 | |||
| Surgical specialties | 192 (13.5) | 21 (2.9) | 22 (18) | 0 | |||
| Obstetrics and gynaecology | 33 (2.3) | 19 (2.6) | 2 (2) | 4 (8) | |||
| Anaesthetics | 108 (7.6) | 43 (5.9) | 8 (7) | 4 (8) | |||
| Radiology | 47 (3.3) | 22 (3.0) | 3 (2) | 3 (6) | |||
| Clinical oncology | 12 (0.8) | 6 (0.8) | 5 (4) | 1 (2) | |||
| Pathology | 63 (4.4) | 40 (5.4) | 5 (4) | 3 (6) | |||
| Psychiatry | 63 (4.4) | 58 (7.9) | 6 (5) | 2 (4) | |||
| Community health | 12 (0.8) | 50 (6.8) | 0 | 2 (4) | |||
| Public health medicine | 26 (1.8) | 23 (3.1) | 3 (2) | 0 | |||
| Other specialties | 24 (1.7) | 16 (2.2) | 9 (7) | 6 (11) | |||