Career choice specialty | Emergency medicine doctors | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Year 1 first choice (N=311) | Year 3 first choice (N=299) | Year 5 first choice (N=281) | ||||
% | n | % | n | % | n | |
Emergency medicine | 23.2 | 72 | 58.2 | 174 | 74.4 | 209 |
Hospital medical specialties | 20.9 | 65 | 9.0 | 27 | 3.6 | 10 |
Paediatrics | 3.2 | 10 | 2.7 | 8 | 1.8 | 5 |
Surgery | 28.3 | 88 | 12.7 | 38 | 6.0 | 17 |
Obstetrics and gynaecology | 1.9 | 6 | 0.3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 |
Anaesthetics | 8.0 | 25 | 4.3 | 13 | 3.6 | 10 |
Radiology | 2.3 | 7 | 0.7 | 2 | 0.7 | 2 |
Clinical oncology | 1.3 | 4 | 1.0 | 3 | 0.4 | 1 |
Pathology | 1.3 | 4 | 1.0 | 3 | 0.0 | 0 |
Psychiatry | 2.9 | 9 | 1.0 | 3 | 0.4 | 1 |
General practice | 13.2 | 41 | 6.4 | 19 | 6.8 | 19 |
Other medical | 1.3 | 4 | 0.3 | 1 | 1.4 | 4 |
Non-medical | 2.6 | 8 | 1.0 | 3 | 1.8 | 5 |
Not specified | 1.6 | 5 | 3.0 | 9 | 0.7 | 2 |
*At 7 (1999 and 2000 cohorts) and 10 (1993 and 1996 cohorts) years after graduation.