Table 5.
Untied first choice of specialty three years after graduation and career destination 10 years after graduation for doctors who graduated in 1974, 1977, 1983, 1993, and 1996
| Year 3 choice | Career destination at year 10 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medical specialties | Paediatrics | Accident and emergency | Surgery | Obstetrics and gynaecology | Anaesthetics | Radiology | Clinical oncology | Pathology | Psychiatry | General practice | Public health | Other medical | Total | |
| Medical specialties | 792 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 37 | 37 | 32 | 47 | 12 | 195 | 15 | 44 | 1240 |
| Paediatrics | 13 | 270 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 8 | 84 | 11 | 8 | 442 |
| Accident and emergency | 6 | 4 | 68 | 6 | — | 19 | 3 | — | 2 | 3 | 29 | — | 2 | 142 |
| Surgery | 16 | 4 | 33 | 885 | 3 | 8 | 35 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 91 | 2 | 23 | 1118 |
| Obstetrics and gynaecology | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 203 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 47 | 8 | 1 | 286 |
| Anaesthetics | 17 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 516 | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 81 | 2 | 6 | 638 |
| Radiology | 6 | 2 | — | — | — | 1 | 146 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 1 | — | 178 |
| Clinical oncology | 14 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | 68 | 5 | — | 9 | — | 3 | 101 |
| Pathology | 17 | 1 | — | 2 | — | 1 | 6 | 7 | 274 | 4 | 20 | 10 | 4 | 346 |
| Psychiatry | 7 | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | 2 | 377 | 26 | 5 | 8 | 427 |
| General practice | 101 | 48 | 16 | 11 | 17 | 37 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 67 | 3054 | 74 | 39 | 3491 |
| Public health | 4 | 11 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | 7 | 10 | 31 | 3 | 68 |
| Other medical* | 10 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | — | 6 | 4 | 42 | 21 | 43 | 141 |
| Total | 1007 | 361 | 141 | 917 | 234 | 634 | 244 | 141 | 375 | 497 | 3703 | 180 | 184 | 8618 |
Emboldened numbers represent matches between career choice and destination.
Of 9702 doctors (5578 men, 4124 women) who responded to the survey and provided a career destination, the following were excluded from analysis: 57 respondents in non-medical destinations (28 men, 29 women), 314 not in paid employment at year 10 (31 men, 283 women), 39 who gave an untied first choice for a non-clinical career (22 men, 17 women), 440 who gave tied first choices (220 men, 220 women), and 234 who gave no career choice at year 3 (145 men, 89 women). 8618 doctors (5132 men, 3486 women) remained.
*See footnote to table 1.