Table 1.

First choice of long-term career of UK medical graduates of 2015, surveyed in 2016: broad specialty groupings, comparing men and women

Grouped specialty	Numbers			Percentages			Men–women comparison
	Total (N=3040)	Men (N=1206)	Women (N=1834)	Total	Men	Women	χ2 value	P value (df=1)
General practice	844	233	611	27.8	19.3	33.3	79.4	<0.001
Hospital medical specialties	805	294	511	26.5	24.4	27.9	4.4	0.037
Surgery	492	262	230	16.2	21.7	12.5	44.6	<0.001
Anaesthesia	480	251	229	15.8	20.8	12.5	37.3	<0.001
Paediatrics	261	82	179	8.6	6.8	9.8	7.8	0.005
Emergency medicine	171	80	91	5.6	6.6	5.0	3.5	0.061
Psychiatry	165	66	99	5.4	5.5	5.4	0.0	0.994
Obstetrics and gynaecology	164	26	138	5.4	2.2	7.5	40.0	<0.001
Pathology	97	42	55	3.2	3.5	3.0	0.4	0.524
Radiology	92	53	39	3.0	4.4	2.1	12.0	<0.001
Radiotherapy and oncology	78	36	42	2.6	3.0	2.3	1.1	0.285
Public health	28	9	19	0.9	0.7	1.0	0.4	0.533
Community health	9	1	8	0.3	0.1	0.4	2.0	0.158
Other medical specialties	21	7	14	0.7	0.6	0.8	0.1	0.710
Not stated	105	31	74	3.5	2.6	4.0	4.3	0.039
Non-medical	44	23	21	1.4	1.9	1.1	2.5	0.117

Note: The numbers given are for tied and untied first choices.