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. 2020 Jul 24;25(1):1798088. doi: 10.1080/10872981.2020.1798088

Table 3.

Specialties 3rd year medical students were seriously consideringa.

  Count Percentage
Internal Medicine 169 24.7
Pediatrics 102 14.9
Emergency Medicine 98 14.3
Obstetrics & Gynecology 83 12.1
General Surgery 64 9.4
Anesthesiology 53 7.7
Orthopaedic Surgery 49 7.2
Psychiatry 44 6.4
Family Medicine 40 5.8
Otolaryngology 31 4.5
Neurology 28 4.1
Medicine/Pediatrics 27 3.9
Ophthalmology 22 3.2
Radiology (Diagnostic) 20 2.9
Urology 18 2.6
Dermatology 16 2.3
Plastic Surgery 15 2.2
Child Neurology 11 1.6
Pathology 8 1.2
Neurosurgery 7 1.0
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation 7 1.0
Radiation Oncology 5 0.7
Interventional Radiology 3 0.4
Thoracic Surgery 3 0.4
Undecided 2 0.3
Vascular Surgery 1 0.1

aRespondents were allowed to indicate either one or two specialties for this survey item.