Table 2. Participants’ career choices before and after the COVID-19 outbreak.
| Career choice | Characteristics † | Before (N=106) | After (N=104) | P value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Become doctors | Total, no. (%) | 77 (72.6) | 71 (68.3) | |
| Practice pediatrics | Total, no. (%) | 42 (39.6) | 39 (37.5) | |
| Female sex, no. | 27 | 25 | 0.986 | |
| Clinical rotation‡, no. | 24 | 21 | 0.765 | |
| Practice medicine but not pediatrics | Total, no. (%) | 35 (33.0) | 32 (30.8) | |
| Female sex, no. | 19 | 17 | 0.924 | |
| Clinical rotation, no. | 15 | 13 | 0.853 | |
| Not determined | Total, no. (%) | 27 (25.5) | 30 (28.9) | |
| Female sex, no. | 18 | 19 | 0.792 | |
| Clinical rotation, no. | 6 | 9 | 0.506 | |
| No medicine | Total, no. | 2 (1.9%) | 3 (2.8%) | |
| Female sex, no. (%) | 1 | 2 | 0.709 | |
| Clinical rotation, no. | 2 | 3 | 0.987 |
†, there was no significant difference (P=0.9) in the proportion of different career choices between the two groups; ‡, this included students only from grades 2015 and 2016.