Table 4.
Intention to apply for academic training: UK medical graduates of 2005, 2009 and 2012 1 year after graduation by cohort year, gender, ethnic group, intercalated degree status, medical school region and first career choice
| Intending to apply for academic training | Univariate analysis | Multivariate analysis | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Predictor | Group | Per cent | n/N | df | χ2 | p Value | Wald | p Value |
| Cohort year | 2005 | 11.4 | 309/2705 | 6 | 221.7 | <0.001 | 17.4 | <0.001 |
| 2009 | 7.3 | 174/2385 | ||||||
| 2012 | 9.1 | 190/2080 | ||||||
| Gender | Men | 13.2 | 337/2555 | 3 | 150.8 | <0.001 | 36.2 | <0.001 |
| Women | 7.3 | 336/4615 | ||||||
| Ethnic group | White | 8.2 | 437/5323 | 6 | 152.9 | <0.001 | 20.5 | <0.001 |
| Asian | 13.0 | 173/1331 | ||||||
| Other | 12.2 | 63/516 | ||||||
| Intercalated degree |
Yes | 11.9 | 242/2032 | 3 | 209.9 | <0.001 | 26.6 | <0.001 |
| No | 7.9 | 242/3058 | ||||||
| Medical school region |
England, old schools | 8.4 | 261/3099 | 18 | 268.1 | <0.001 | 50.6 | <0.001 |
| England, new schools | 5.5 | 27/489 | ||||||
| London | 9.0 | 149/1648 | ||||||
| Oxbridge | 20.8 | 86/414 | ||||||
| Scotland | 10.4 | 101/973 | ||||||
| Northern Ireland | 10.1 | 21/207 | ||||||
| Wales | 8.2 | 28/340 | ||||||
| First choice of career | Hospital medical specialties | 10.9 | 168/1545 | 9 | 563.3 | <0.001 | 18.6 | <0.001 |
| Other hospital | 8.5 | 211/2478 | ||||||
| General practice | 6.3 | 120/1915 | ||||||
| Surgery | 14.1 | 174/1232 | ||||||
‘Univariate’ denotes single factor χ2 test for each predictor. ‘Multivariate’ denotes binomial logistic regression result for each predictor with all other predictors in the model. We excluded cases where one or more predictors were missing, which reduced the sample size from 7623 (see table 1) to 7170.