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. 2022 Mar 22;22:198. doi: 10.1186/s12909-022-03263-4

Table 3.

Preferred team roles according to gender and specialty groupa

Team roles Female Male P-value GP PS TS P-value
N % N % N % N % N %
Completer-Finisher 192 14.0 73 8.0 .000** 26 9.0 20 10.2 34 16.5 .028*
Shaper 253 18.4 194 21.1 .118 42 14.5 35 17.9 54 26.2 .004*
Implementer 337 24.5 218 23.7 .713 61 21.1 43 21.9 56 27.2 .256
Resource-Investigator 24 1.7 30 3.3 .027* 10 3.5 7 3.6 2 1.0 .176
Team Worker 555 40.4 267 29.1 .000** 136 47.1 82 41.8 60 29.1 3e-04**
Coordinator 100 7.3 85 9.3 .102 28 9.7 18 9.2 12 5.8 .279
Monitor-Evaluator 79 5.7 129 14.1 .000** 16 5.5 19 9.7 22 10.7 .084
Plant 28 2.0 39 4.2 .003* 8 2.8 5 2.6 2 1.0 .365

* P < .05

** P < .001

aGP general practitioner, PS Person-oriented Specialty, TS Technique-oriented Specialty. The analysis by specialty group was limited to students from 2016 and 2017