TABLE 3. Completion rates by profession and gender in the Brazilian Home Care Multicentre Qualification Program, Brazil, 2012-2018.

Female	n	%	Completion Rates	Male	n	%	Completion Rates
Nurse	28 399	29.16	24.53	Student	5 211	16.22	36.61
Student	22 888	15.44	30.34	Physician	5 144	16.01	44.5
Nursing Techniciana	12 938	8.73	33.28	Nurse	4 232	13.17	30.53
Physician	7 845	5.29	46.12	Nursing Techniciana	1 886	5.88	35.26
Community Health Agents	5 253	3.54	36.68	Community Health Agents	919	2.86	36.34
Physiotherapist	2 027	1.37	31.13	Physiotherapist	555	1.73	34.41
Social worker	1 922	1.3	31.74	Dentist	526	1.64	41.06
Dentist	1 440	0.97	28.75	Psychologist	208	0.65	27.4
Psychologist	1 321	0.89	28.31	Pharmaceutics	128	0.4	32.81
Nutritionist	914	0.62	26.7	Social worker	89	0.28	31.46
Speech therapist	459	0.31	30.72	Speech therapist	78	0.24	50
Pharmaceutics	386	0.26	30.83	Physical Education	69	0.21	31.88
Occupational Therapist	294	0.2	27.55	Nutritionist	50	0.16	32
Physical Education	83	0.06	31.33	Occupational Therapist	37	0.12	29.73
Biomedicine	60	0.04	41.67	Biomedicine	25	0.08	28
Biology	46	0.03	36.96	Biology	18	0.06	38.89
Veterinary	4	0.00	75	Veterinary	4	0.01	50
Unknown	51 215	34.55	26.57	Unknown	11 240	34.98	32.62
Other	10 731	7.24	26.84	Other	1 710	5.32	32.63
Total (female)	148 225	100	28.97	Total (male)	32 129	100	35.36

Source: prepared by authors from the results of the study.

^aAlso includes nursing assistants.