Table 1.
Comparison of the degree of considering psychiatry as a future career among medical students before and after psychiatry clerkship in three Schools of Medicine in Tehran, Iran
| Degree of considering psychiatry as future career | Wilcoxon Signed Ranks | Test Statistics | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Chosen career N (%) | Strongly possibility N (%) | No strong Opinion yet | Unlikely | No way | Positive ranks N (%) | Negative ranks N (%) | Ties N (%) | Z | P value | ||||||
| School | Before | After | Before | After | Before | After | Before | After | Before | After | |||||
| Tehran | 2 (1.5) |
2 (1.5) |
16 (11.9) |
25 (18.2) |
54 (40.0) |
38 (27.7) |
37 (27.4) |
42 (30.7) |
26 (19.3) |
30 (21.9) |
31 (23.3) |
35 (26.3) |
67 (50.4) |
−0.27 | 0.79 |
| Shahid Beheshti | 0 (0.0) |
1 (2.7) | 3 (7.9) |
4 (10.8) |
15 (39.5) |
11 (29.7) |
11 (28.9) |
8 (21.6) |
9 (23.7) |
13 (35.1) |
7 (19.4) |
8 (22.2) |
21 (58.4) |
−0.22 | 0.83 |
| Iran | 0 (0.0) |
2 (4.4) | 8 (18.2) |
6 (13.3) |
11 (25.0) |
12 (26.7) |
10 (22.7) |
10 (22.2) |
15 (34.1) |
15 (33.3) |
13 (30.2) |
10 (23.3) |
20 (46.5) |
−0.80 | 0.42 |
| Total | 2 (0.9) |
5 (2.3) |
27 (12.4) |
35 (16.0) |
80 (36.9) |
61 (27.9) |
58 (26.7) |
60 (27.4) |
50 (23.0) |
58 (26.5) |
51 (24.1) |
53 (25.0) |
108 (50.9) |
−0.10 | 0.92 |