Table 2.
Percentages of doctors who originally chose cardiology and were later working in cardiology*
| |
Specialty destination: year 10 (1974–96) and year 7 (1999, 2000) |
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men | Women | Total | |||||||
| Career choices |
% |
n |
N |
% |
n |
N |
% |
n |
N |
| Year 1 |
35.2 |
38 |
108 |
28.6 |
10 |
35 |
33.6 |
48 |
143 |
| Year 3 |
63.0 |
97 |
154 |
42.3 |
22 |
52 |
57.8 |
119 |
206 |
| Year 5 | 87.3 | 131 | 150 | 87.1 | 27 | 31 | 87.3 | 158 | 181 |
* Ten years after qualification (1974–1996 cohorts) or seven years after (1999 and 2000 cohorts).
N denotes the number who originally chose cardiology, and n the number who later worked in it.