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Table 3 Logistic regression for factors associated with nonclinical medicine specialty N = 9499)

From: Factors associated with the specialty choice of Korean medical students: a cross-sectional survey

  

All

Subgroup analysis

  

aOR (95 % CI)

Men

Women

   

aOR (95 % CI)

aOR (95 % CI)

Men (ref: women)

0.851 (0.628–1.152)

  

Age

1.052 (0.998–1.110)

1.038 (0.971–1.110)

1.098 (0.999–1.207)

Grade

1st

Reference

Reference

Reference

2nd

0.780 (0.518–1.174)

1.040 (0.617–1.753)

0.488* (0.249–0.956)

3rd

1.011 (0.671–1.522)

1.047 (0.603–1.820)

0.857 (0.459–1.597)

4th

0.689 (0.438–1.084)

0.964 (0.541–1.717)

0.374* (0.176–0.793)

Medical college (ref: graduate medical school)

1.625* (1.139–2.318)

1.768* (1.114–2.807)

1.484 (0.823–2.677)

Metropolitan hometown (ref: nonmetropolitan)

1.161 (0.857–1.573)

1.513* (1.023–2.240)

0.783 (0.481–1.274)

Metropolitan school (ref: nonmetropolitan)

1.183 (0.858–1.631)

1.198 (0.794–1.808)

1.189 (0.709–1.993)

  1. *P < 0.05