Table 4.
Characteristics of students interested in surgical specialties
| Surgical | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subspecialties | Others | ENT | Others | Cardiology | Others | |
| (n = 72; 23%) | (n = 245; 77%) | (n = 71;22%) | (n = 246; 78%) | (n = 84; 27%) | (n = 233; 73%) | |
| Women/men | 26%/74% | 61%*/39% | 38%/62% | 58%*/42% | 39%/61% | 58%/42% |
| Single | 50% | 52% | 51% | 45% | 55% | 51% |
| Internal Medicine | 15% | 35%‡ | 14% | 35%* | 52% | 22%‡ |
| Pediatrics | 17% | 42%‡ | 27% | 39% | 32% | 37% |
| Family Medicine | 6% | 26%‡ | 13% | 23%* | 16% | 24% |
| Sub Int. Medicine | 19% | 36%‡ | 23% | 35% | 46% | 27%‡ |
| Cardiology | 33% | 26% | 30% | 27% | 100% | 0%‡ |
| Psychiatry | 3% | 16%* | 9% | 14% | 8% | 17% |
| Anesthesiology | 11% | 6%* | 9% | 7% | 12% | 6%‡ |
| Sub Surgery | 100% | 0%‡ | 45% | 17%‡ | 29% | 22%* |
| General Surgery | 44% | 5%‡ | 24% | 14%* | 17% | 16% |
| Orthopedic Surg | 42% | 6%‡ | 33% | 10%‡ | 12% | 16% |
| Ophthalmology | 24% | 10%* | 30% | 7%‡ | 13% | 14% |
| Radiology | 13% | 10% | 16% | 10% | 8% | 11% |
| ENT | 44% | 17%‡ | 100% | 0%‡ | 25% | 22% |
| Dermatology | 8% | 7% | 10% | 6%* | 8% | 6% |
| Plastic Surgery | 29% | 10%‡ | 37% | 8%‡ | 12% | 16% |
| Emergency Med | 29% | 20% | 29% | 18%* | 34% | 18%‡ |
| Pathology | 3% | 1% | 3% | 0% | 1% | 1% |
| OB/GYN | 40% | 31% | 37% | 32% | 32% | 34% |
| Research | 13% | 10% | 16% | 10% | 17% | 9%* |
| *p < 0.001 vs Others | ‡p < 0.05 vs Others | |||||
| Multiple Regression | Multiple Regression | Multiple Regression | ||||
| Specialties: r = 0.80 | Specialties: r = 0.61 | Specialties: r = 0.65 | ||||
| +General Surgery: p < 0.0001 | +Plastic Surgery: p < 0.0001 | +Sub Internal Med: p < 0.001 | ||||
| +Orthopedic Surgery: p < 0.0001 | +Orthopedic Surgery: p < 0.0001 | +ENT: p < 0.04 | ||||
| +Opthalmology: p < 0.041 | +Ophthalmology: p < 0.001 | +Sub Surgery: p < 0.001 | ||||
| +Cardiology: p < 0.001 | +Emergency Medicine: p < 0.0001 | +Ophthalmology: p < 0.011 | ||||
| -Pediatrics: p < 0.015 | +Cardiology: p < 0.048 | +Emergency Medicine: p < 0.009 | ||||
| -Cardiology: p < 0.001 | +General Surgery: p < 0.041 | +internal Medicine: p < 0.0001 | ||||
| -Psychiatry: p < 0.039 | -Dermatology: p < 0.024 | |||||
| -Internal Medicine: p < 0.018 | -Plastic Surgery: p < 0.047 | |||||
Values are the percentage of important/very important on the 5-point Likert scale
Bold values are significantly greater than the other member of the pair (unpaired t-test)