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Table 4 Logistic regression for factors associated with surgical specialty preference (N = 9313)

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)

2.537* (2.296–2.804)

  

Age

0.985 (0.968–1.003)

0.974* (0.954–0.995)

1.024 (0.986–1.064)

Grade

1st

Reference

Reference

Reference

 

2nd

0.907 (0.802–1.027)

0.967 (0.836–1.119)

0.768* (0.608–0.970)

 

3rd

0.909 (0.795–1.040)

0.949 (0.809–1.113)

0.805 (0.625–1.038)

 

4th

1.022 (0.890–1.173)

1.065 (0.903–1.256)

0.876 (0.677–1.135)

Medical college (ref: graduate medical school)

0.885* (0.790–0.991)

0.849* (0.743–0.970)

1.009 (0.810–1.256)

Metropolitan hometown (ref: nonmetropolitan)

1.031 (0.938–1.134)

1.055 (0.941–1.182)

0.970 (0.815–1.154)

Metropolitan school (ref: nonmetropolitan)

0.892* (0.806–0.988)

0.840* (0.743–0.949)

1.032 (0.858–1.241)

  1. *P < 0.05