From: Factors associated with the specialty choice of Korean medical students: a cross-sectional survey
Grade/gender specialty | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Total | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Men | Women | Men | Women | Men | Women | Men | Women | ||||
Clinical | Medical | Internal medicine | 478 (27.4)* | 283 (29.9)* | 461 (31.3)* | 326 (34.2)* | 368 (28.8)* | 282 (34.6)* | 350 (27.2)* | 287 (28.8)* | 2 835 (29.8) |
Psychiatry | 144 (8.2)* | 98 (10.3)* | 94 (6.4) | 84 (8.8) | 82 (6.4) | 68 (8.3) | 83 (6.4) | 91 (9.1) | 744 (7.8) | ||
Pediatrics | 51 (2.9)* | 101 (10.7)* | 45 (3.1)* | 105 (11.0)* | 58 (4.5)* | 110 (13.5)* | 50 (3.9)* | 123 (12.3)* | 643 (6.8) | ||
Dermatology | 79 (4.5) | 59 (6.2) | 45 (3.1) | 65 (6.8) | 48 (3.8) | 35 (4.3) | 39 (3.0) | 50 (5.0) | 420 (4.4) | ||
Neurology | 52 (3.0) | 48 (5.1) | 56 (3.8) | 50 (5.2) | 48 (3.8) | 39 (4.8) | 47 (3.6) | 38 (3.8) | 378 (4.0) | ||
Rehabilitative medicine | 75 (4.3)* | 36 (3.8)* | 57 (3.9)* | 24 (2.5)* | 48 (3.8)* | 14 (1.7)* | 51 (4.0)* | 32 (3.2)* | 337 (3.5) | ||
Diagnostic radiology | 57 (3.3)* | 32 (3.4)* | 37 (2.5) | 43 (4.5) | 35 (2.7) | 26 (3.2) | 33 (2.6) | 46 (4.6) | 309 (3.3) | ||
Anesthesiology | 37 (2.1) | 30 (3.2) | 39 (2.6) | 28 (2.9) | 35 (2.7)* | 20 (2.5)* | 43 (3.3) | 42 (4.2) | 274 (2.9) | ||
Family medicine | 22 (1.3) | 20 (2.1) | 23 (1.6) | 33 (3.5) | 23 (1.8) | 23 (2.8) | 24 (1.9) | 37 (3.7) | 205 (2.2) | ||
Emergency medicine | 22 (1.3)* | 8 (0.8)* | 24 (1.6)* | 8 (0.8)* | 21 (1.6) | 12 (1.5) | 18 (1.4)* | 8 (0.8)* | 121 (1.3) | ||
Clinical pathology | 6 (0.3) | 7 (0.7) | 3 (0.2) | 4 (0.4) | 6 (0.5) | 5 (0.6) | 2 (0.2)* | 13 (1.3)* | 46 (0.5) | ||
Therapeutic radiology | 8 (0.5)* | 1 (0.1)* | 6 (0.4) | 1 (0.1) | 3 (0.2) | 5 (0.6) | 12 (0.9) | 5 (0.5) | 41 (0.4) | ||
Occupational and environmental medicine | 5 (0.3) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (0.3) | 0 (0.0) | 8 (0.6) | 3 (0.4) | 12 (0.9) | 5 (0.5) | 37 (0.4) | ||
Nuclear medicine | 3 (0.2) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (0.2) | 0 (0.0) | 7 (0.5) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (0.2) | 0 (0.0) | 16 (0.2) | ||
Tuberculosis | 1 (0.1) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (0.1) | 1 (0.1) | 1 (0.1) | 0 (0.0) | 9 (0.7)* | 1 (0.1)* | 15 (0.2) | ||
Subtotal | 1 040 (59.5)* | 723 (76.3)* | 899 (61.0)* | 772 (80.9)* | 791 (62.0)* | 642 (78.7)* | 776 (60.2)* | 778 (78.0)* | 6 421 (67.6) | ||
Surgical | Orthopedic surgery | 257 (14.7)* | 14 (1.5)* | 222 (15.1)* | 4 (0.4)* | 169 (13.2)* | 7 (0.9)* | 174 (13.5)* | 6 (0.6)* | 853 (9.0) | |
General surgery | 129 (7.4)* | 67 (7.1)* | 102 (6.9)* | 46 (4.8)* | 109 (8.5)* | 50 (6.1)* | 79 (6.1)* | 51 (5.1)* | 633 (6.7) | ||
Ophthalmology | 83 (4.8)* | 50 (5.3)* | 57 (3.9)* | 27 (2.8)* | 21 (1.6) | 20 (2.5) | 52 (4.0) | 41 (4.1) | 351 (3.7) | ||
Neurosurgery | 87 (5.0)* | 20 (2.1)* | 61 (4.1)* | 21 (2.2)* | 54 (4.2)* | 5 (0.6)* | 53 (4.1)* | 7 (0.7)* | 308 (3.2) | ||
Otolaryngology | 50 (2.9)* | 16 (1.7)* | 37 (2.5)* | 18 (1.9)* | 35 (2.7)* | 13 (1.6)* | 41 (3.2) | 28 (2.8) | 238 (2.5) | ||
Plastic surgery | 32 (1.8)* | 2 (0.2)* | 34 (2.3)* | 14 (1.5)* | 36 (2.8)* | 12 (1.5)* | 63 (4.9)* | 16 (1.6)* | 209 (2.2) | ||
Obstetrics-gynecology | 8 (0.5) | 15 (1.6) | 3 (0.2)* | 31 (3.2)* | 9 (0.7)* | 38 (4.7)* | 8 (0.6)* | 45 (4.5)* | 157 (1.7) | ||
Cardiothoracic surgery | 27 (1.5)* | 14 (1.5)* | 26 (1.8)* | 6 (0.6)* | 20 (1.6)* | 6 (0.7)* | 12 (0.9) | 10 (1.0) | 121 (1.3) | ||
Urology | 3 (0.2) | 1 (0.1) | 4 (0.3) | 1 (0.1) | 6 (0.5) | 0 (0.0) | 5 (0.4) | 2 (0.2) | 22 (0.2) | ||
Subtotal | 676 (38.7)* | 199 (21.0)* | 546 (37.1)* | 168 (17.6)* | 459 (36.0)* | 151 (18.5)* | 487 (37.8)* | 206 (20.6)* | 2 892 (30.4) | ||
Nonclinical | Pathology | 10 (0.6) | 8 (0.8) | 6 (0.4) | 7 (0.7) | 12 (0.9) | 16 (2.0) | 9 (0.7) | 8 (0.8) | 76 (0.8) | |
Basic science of medicine | 17 (1.0) | 9 (1.0) | 16 (1.1)* | 3 (0.3)* | 9 (0.7)* | 2 (0.2)* | 11 (0.9)* | 3 (0.3)* | 70 (0.7) | ||
Preventive medicine | 4 (0.2) | 8 (0.8) | 6 (0.4) | 4 (0.4) | 5 (0.4) | 5 (0.6) | 5 (0.4) | 3 (0.3) | 40 (0.4) | ||
Subtotal | 31 (1.8) | 25 (2.6) | 28 (1.9) | 14 (1.5) | 26 (2.0) | 23 (2.8) | 25 (1.9) | 14 (1.4) | 186 (2.0) |