Table 4.
Career choices of newly qualified doctors of 1993, 1996, 1999, and 2000 by sex and ethnicity. Values are percentages
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Men
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Women
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Career choice* | White (n=3402) | Non-white (n=1160) | White (n=4546) | Non-white (n=1040) |
| General practice: | 17.6 | 13.7 | 32.2 | 23.5‡ |
| Excluding doctors from abroad† | 17.6 | 16.4 | 32.3 | 27.2 |
| General medicine: | 22.5 | 26.9 | 21.4 | 28.7§ |
| Excluding doctors from abroad† | 22.6 | 25.1 | 21.3 | 25.8 |
| Geriatric medicine | 0.3 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 0.7 |
| Paediatrics | 4.4 | 4.7 | 8.4 | 8.6 |
| Accident and emergency | 3.4 | 1.5 | 2.9 | 1.9 |
| General surgery: | 11.7 | 13.6 | 5.7 | 5.0 |
| Excluding doctors from abroad† | 11.6 | 13.5 | 5.7 | 4.7 |
| Other specialist surgery: | 16.7 | 23.4§ | 5.0 | 6.4 |
| Excluding doctors from abroad† | 16.6 | 22.1 | 4.9 | 5.7 |
| Obstetrics and gynaecology | 1.6 | 1.6 | 4.5 | 5.4 |
| Anaesthetics | 9.6 | 4.3‡ | 7.5 | 5.1 |
| Psychiatry | 4.7 | 3.0 | 3.6 | 3.9 |
| Other medical specialty | 6.1 | 5.1 | 7.0 | 10.0 |
| Non-medical choice | 1.6 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 0.9 |
Specialty of first choice for long term career at the end of the preregistration year.
Excludes (a) respondents whose family home was outside the United Kingdom or who did not supply the location of their family home, and (b) for the 1996, 1999, and 2000 cohorts, respondents who were classified as overseas applicants to medical school (according to the level of fees paid) or who did not supply this information. (Numbers excluded: for men, 82 white, 238 non-white; for women, 162 white, 217 non-white.)
Percentage significantly low for specialty compared with overall total (P<0.001).
Percentage significantly high for specialty compared with overall total (P<0.001).