Table 2:

Descriptives and differences in explanatory variables according to family medicine practice location

Characteristic	Rural practice	Urban practice	p value	Effect size*
Sex, no (%)
Female (n = 187)	22 (11.8)	165 (88.2)	0.4	0.04
Male (n = 122)	18 (14.8)	104 (85.2)
Rural background, no. (%)†
Rural (n = 38)	12 (31.6)	26 (68.4)	< 0.001	0.22
Urban (n = 263)	27 (10.3)	236 (89.7)
Age at entry into UBC MD training, mean ± SD	27.2 ± 5.1	25.4 ± 4.0	0.01	0.39
Campus, no. (%)
Main campus (n = 211)	14 (6.6)	197 (93.4)	< 0.001	0.32
IMP-RMC (n = 42)	7 (16.7)	35 (83.3)
NMP-RMC (n = 56)	19 (33.9)	37 (66.1)

Note: IMP-RMC = Island Medical Program regional medical campus, MD = medical degree, NMP-RMC = Northern Medical Campus regional medical program, SD = standard deviation, UBC = University of British Columbia.

^*Cramér’s V was calculated to determine effect size for sex, rural background and campus; Cohen’s d was calculated to determine effect size for age at entry into medical school.

^†Data were missing for 8 students.