Fig. 3.

The comparison of first choice career preferences by sex among fifth year medical students in MaKCHS during the 2018/2019 academic year. Sex was shown to have a significant association with specialty career preferences among the medical students. Therefore, this figure was used to demonstrate the difference in selection of careers between male medical students and female medical students. With each specialty there is a blue bar representing the proportion of males and orange showing the proportion of females that selected that career. There was a higher proportion of male medical students that selected obstetrics and gynecology and surgery compared to the female medical students. There was a higher proportion of females than males that selected non-surgical careers including internal medicine, pediatrics, public health, psychiatry and emergency medicine. Orthopedics, basic sciences and radiology were selected by only male medical students. Dermatology and Ophthalmology were selected by only female medical students. An equal proportion of the male and female medical students were undecided about their first choice of specialty career