Table 4 |
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Looking forwards: percentage of doctors, whose original choice was surgery, who eventually practised as surgeons |
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Career destination in surgery |
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Men |
Women |
Total |
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Original Choice |
% |
n |
N |
% |
n |
N |
% |
n |
N |
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Year 1 |
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Surgery untied 1st |
64.1 |
1091 |
1701 |
47.8 |
239 |
500 |
60.4 |
1330 |
2201 |
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Surgery tied 1st |
29.5 |
46 |
156 |
21.4 |
12 |
56 |
27.4 |
58 |
212 |
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Surgery 2nd or 3rd |
14.2 |
45 |
318 |
7.5 |
11 |
147 |
12.0 |
56 |
465 |
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Choices other than surgery† |
1.0 |
59 |
5273 |
0.7 |
40 |
5855 |
0.9 |
99 |
11128 |
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Year 3 |
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Surgery untied 1st |
80.6 |
1120 |
1389 |
67.4 |
260 |
386 |
77.7 |
1380 |
1775 |
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Surgery tied 1st |
44.4 |
16 |
36 |
23.5 |
4 |
17 |
37.7 |
20 |
53 |
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Surgery 2nd or 3rd |
8.6 |
12 |
140 |
10.6 |
5 |
47 |
9.1 |
17 |
187 |
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Choices other than surgery† |
0.8 |
45 |
5611 |
0.3 |
15 |
5923 |
0.5 |
60 |
11534 |
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Year 5* |
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Surgery untied 1st |
91.4 |
1015 |
1111 |
81.8 |
256 |
313 |
89.3 |
1271 |
1424 |
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Surgery tied 1st |
26.3 |
5 |
19 |
62.5 |
5 |
8 |
37.0 |
10 |
27 |
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Surgery 2nd or 3rd |
6.1 |
3 |
49 |
15.8 |
3 |
19 |
8.8 |
16 |
68 |
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Choices other than surgery† |
0.5 |
22 |
4701 |
0.2 |
10 |
5187 |
0.3 |
32 |
9888 |
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The table covers all doctors who specified surgery as their choice of career at years one, three and five: percentages (and numbers) whose eventual career was in surgery at year ten (cohorts of 1974, 1977, 1983*, 1993, 1996) or seven (1999, 2000 cohorts) † Includes all respondents not making an explicit choice for surgery. * The 1983 cohort was not surveyed five years after graduation. |
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Goldacre et al. BMC Surgery 2010 10:32 doi:10.1186/1471-2482-10-32 |
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