Table 5.

Influence of gender, age, relationship status, and year in program to the selection factors

Factors	Gender	Age	Relation- ship status	Year in program
Climate	0.36	0.52	0.42	0.52
Cost of living	0.57	0.95	0.73	0.39
Geographical location	0.74	0.78	0.97	0.64
Philosophy of training	0.39	0.21	0.81	0.73
Diversity of training experience	0.86	0.40	0.25	0.04
Proximity to other specialties	0.62	0.13	0.50	0.58
Prestige of program	0.68	0.41	0.67	0.20
Prestige of faculty	0.30	0.66	0.63	0.59
Number of residents	0.54	0.98	0.66	0.30
Number of board-certified faculty	0.35	0.59	0.19	0.03
Extent of staff supervision	0.10	0.62	0.49	0.87
High level of management   responsibility	0.08	0.67	0.04	0.79
Availability of electives	0.26	0.09	0.55	0.11
Amount of clinical training hours	0.72	0.36	0.95	0.07
High volume of patients	0.36	0.88	0.85	0.87
Clinic/lab facilities	0.18	0.39	0.07	0.07
Amount of lab work	0.10	0.74	0.36	0.42
Opportunity for research	0.13	0.68	0.26	0.48
Opportunity for implant placement	0.30	0.56	0.30	0.04
Opportunity postresidency training	0.44	0.07	0.20	0.30
Opportunity to teach	0.51	0.05	0.02	0.05
Support for meetings	0.23	0.32	0.16	0.33
Impression at interview	0.98	0.13	0.23	0.09
Intuitive feeling of program	0.26	0.26	0.48	0.04
Impression program director	0.65	0.86	0.86	0.38
Impression of resident satisfaction	0.18	0.05	0.36	0.06
Resident influence	0.11	0.16	0.12	0.43
Advice of mentors	0.85	0.84	0.38	0.30
Benefits	0.94	0.71	0.10	0.54
Salary	0.27	0.67	0.21	0.23
Free time	0.56	0.07	0.87	0.07
Vacation	0.54	0.20	0.38	0.83
Social activities	0.34	0.03	0.06	0.08
Proximity to family	0.23	0.09	0.01	0.10
Influence of spouse	0.33	0.64	0.00	0.73
Moonlighting opportunities	0.82	0.14	0.76	0.74

p-values for hypothesis tested are presented.

Statistically significant values are indicated in bold.