Table 4.
This table shows the factors that influence specialty choices according to factor analysis.
| Component |
Communalities | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||
| Preference to deal with emergency cases | .669 | .499 | |||||
| Looking for a challenging specialty | .574 | .415 | |||||
| The difficulty of getting into this specialty | .562 | .362 | |||||
| Acceptable on-call duty | .515 | .482 | |||||
| Opportunity to perform procedures | .500 | .434 | |||||
| Preference to deal with non-urgent cases | -.483 | .543 | |||||
| Free time away from work | .684 | .546 | |||||
| Opportunities for part time work | .677 | .519 | |||||
| More satisfaction with family life | .657 | .502 | |||||
| Length of residency years | .567 | .354 | |||||
| Preference to deal with a narrow group of patients with specific problems | .665 | .486 | |||||
| Minimizing direct interaction with patients | .638 | .54 | |||||
| Preference to treat less complicated patients | .602 | .471 | |||||
| Personal experience in the specialty | .448 | .463 | |||||
| Following a role model in the specialty | .430 | .419 | |||||
| The appeal of being in this chosen specialty | .604 | .377 | |||||
| Variety of patients | .513 | .35 | |||||
| The degree of stress | -.464 | .529 | |||||
| likelihood of influencing patients' lives | .446 | .325 | |||||
| Reliance on clinical diagnostic skills | .432 | .346 | |||||
| Opportunities to do research | .336 | .198 | |||||
| Having long term relationship with patients | .673 | .475 | |||||
| Focus on treating patients in the clinic (outpatients) | .553 | .457 | |||||
| Private sector opportunities | .659 | .476 | |||||
| The high income | .655 | .505 | |||||
Extraction Method: Principal Component Analysis.
Rotation Method: Varimax with Kaiser Normalization.