Table 5.
The median/mean score of investigated question “What are the factors that can increase your willingness to consider oral pathology specialist as the lifelong career?”
|
Factors |
All answerers (n = 35) |
Median/Mean |
Mann–Whitney U test | Significance | Median/Mean |
Mann–Whitney U test | Significance | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median/Mean | Number and proportion of those who answered as important | PGYD1 (n = 17) | PGYD2 (n = 16) | Male (n = 17) | Female (n = 17) | |||||
| Increase salary of oral pathology residents | 3/3.17 | 32 (91%) | 3/3.29 | 3/3.06 | 109.00 | NS | 3/3.18 | 3/3.18 | 149.00 | NS |
| Improve job opportunities after finishing specialist training | 3/3.29 | 34 (97%) | 3/3.41 | 3/3.19 | 109.00 | NS | 3/3.29 | 3/3.29 | 147.00 | NS |
| Increase income of oral pathology specialists | 3/3.34 | 35 (100%) | 3/3.41 | 3/3.31 | 122.50 | NS | 3/3.47 | 3/3.24 | 178.50 | NS |
| Improve life quality or reduce workload | 3/3.26 | 35 (100%) | 3/3.24 | 3/3.31 | 146.50 | NS | 3/3.41 | 3/3.12 | 187.00 | NS |
NS: not significant.