Table 1.
Variable | Prior GHEA (n = 284) |
No GHEA (n = 233) |
p-value | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Age, mean ± SD | 27.2 ± 5.0 | 28.0 ± 6.4 | 0.11 | 27.6 ± 5.6 | |
Gender, n (%) | |||||
Male | 52 (42.3) | 71 (57.7) | 0.001 | * | 123 (23.8) |
Female | 232 (58.9) | 162 (41.1) | 394 (76.2) | ||
School Affiliation, n (%) | |||||
Medical School | 113 (52.8) | 101 (47.2) | 0.41 | 214 (41.4) | |
Nursing School | 171 (56.4) | 132 (43.6) | 303 (58.6) | ||
Annual Household Income, n (%) | |||||
<$50K | 45 (57.7) | 33 (42.3) | 0.51 | 78 (20.4) | |
$50K–$99K | 61 (62.2) | 37 (37.8) | 98 (25.6) | ||
$100K–$149K | 47 (59.5) | 32 (40.5) | 79 (20.6) | ||
$150K–$199K | 26 (65.0) | 14 (35.0) | 40 (10.4) | ||
>$200K | 45 (51.1) | 43 (48.9) | 88 (23.0) | ||
Intended Specialty, n (%)† | |||||
Medical | 76 (60.8) | 49 (39.2) | 0.051 | 125 (61.9) | |
Surgical | 36 (46.8) | 41 (53.2) | 77 (38.1) |
Abbreviations: Global health experience abroad (GHEA), standard deviation (SD).
Missing data for covariates: income (25.9%), intended specialty (5.6%). Surveys with no data regarding participation in prior GHEAs were excluded.
†M.D. candidates only. “Medical” = emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, medical subspecialties, pediatrics, and psychiatry. “Surgical” = anesthesiology, general surgery, obstetrics/gynecology, and surgical subspecialties.
*p-value < 0.05.