Career choices of newly qualified doctors of 1993, 1996, 1999 and 2000 from ethnic minorities, by sex and ethnic origin. Values are percentages
Career choice* | Men |
| Women | ||||||
Asian (n=765) | Black (n=48) | Chinese (n=222) | Other (n=125) |
| Asian (n=653) | Black (n=61) | Chinese (n=172) | Other (n=154) | |
General practice: | 15.2 | 12.5 | 8.1 | 15.2 |
| 27.1 | 14.8 | 8.1 | 28.6 |
Excluding doctors from abroad† | 16.4 | 10.8 | 17.4 | 17.6 |
| 29.5 | 14.9 | 11.9 | 31.5 |
General medicine: | 26.8 | 22.9 | 34.2 | 20.8 |
| 27.1 | 36.1 | 40.1 | 24.0 |
Excluding doctors from abroad† | 26.1 | 18.9 | 31.5 | 20.4 |
| 25.8 | 38.3 | 34.5 | 20.0 |
Paediatrics | 4.4 | 10.4 | 5.0 | 4.0 |
| 8.4 | 14.8 | 8.1 | 7.1 |
General surgery: | 14.6 | 16.7 | 12.2 | 10.4 |
| 4.6 | 1.6 | 7.0 | 5.8 |
Excluding doctors from abroad† | 14.0 | 21.6 | 13.0 | 8.3 |
| 4.4 | 2.1 | 6.0 | 6.2 |
Other specialist surgery: | 22.6 | 25.0 | 23.9 | 27.2 |
| 6.4 | 4.9 | 9.3 | 3.9 |
Excluding doctors from abroad† | 21.6 | 24.3 | 21.7 | 25.0 |
| 5.9 | 2.1 | 8.3 | 4.6 |
Anaesthetics | 4.3 | 4.2 | 5.0 | 3.2 |
| 5.5 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 5.8 |
Other choice | 12.0 | 8.3 | 11.7 | 19.2 |
| 20.8 | 24.6 | 23.8 | 24.7 |
*Specialty of first choice for long term career at the end of the preregistration year.
†Excludes (a) respondents whose family home was outside the United Kingdom or who did not supply the location of their family home, and (b) for the 1996, 1999, and 2000 cohorts, respondents who were classified as overseas applicants to medical school (according to the level of fees paid) or who did not supply this information. (Numbers excluded: for men, 80 Asian, 11 black, 130 Chinese, and 17 other; for women, 91 Asian, 14 black, 88 Chinese, and 24 other.)