Table 2. Career choice among the study participants:

S. No	Career choice characteristics	Frequency (n=362)	Percentage (%)
1	Type of career preferred
	Clinical practice	314	86.7
	Basic medical specialty	5	1.4
	Public health specialty	7	1.9
	Medical professional in government hospitals	4	1.1
	Others (including super-specialty teaching, etc)	2	0.6
	Undecided	30	8.3
2	Reasons
	Characteristics of the specialty	290	80.1
	Personal reasons	138	38.1
	Opinions of peers, parents and experts	150	41.4
	Future scope in career	238	65.7
	Others	196	54.1