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. 2021 Apr 16;21:215. doi: 10.1186/s12909-021-02630-x

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Fig. 2 — The distribution of specialty career preferences divided into first second and third choice among fifth year medical students in MaKCHS during the 2018/2019 academic year. This figures shows the details of the proportions of students that selected various careers as first second or third choice. Each specialty has four bars, the first one is blue and indicates first choice, second is orange indicating second choice, then gray indicating third choice and yellow indicating the overall total. Obstetrics and gynecology was the most commonly selected specialty overall with almost 20% of the students selecting it. About 25% of the medical students selected this specialty as the first choice. Careers like anesthesia, family medicine and ENT were not selected as first choice for any of the students