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Table 2 Number of applicants in different specialities of medicine from 2010 to 2017

From: The trend of feminization of doctors’ workforce in Oman: is it a phenomenon that could rouse the health system?

Programmes

Number of applicants per gender per year

Total

2010–2011

2011–2012

2012–2013

2013–2014

2014–2015

2015–2016

2016–2017

M

F

M

F

M

F

M

F

M

F

M

F

M

F

M

F

Total

Anaesthesia

7

2

1

5

2

2

4

2

1

2

4

6

0

1

19

20

39

Biochemistry

1

0

0

0

1

6

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

4

3

10

13

Dermatology

2

19

5

19

8

26

9

7

1

8

0

0

2

14

27

93

120

Emergency medicine

15

5

13

8

9

10

6

12

6

4

4

9

6

8

59

56

115

E.N.T.

2

3

2

3

2

3

3

9

3

5

4

4

2

10

18

37

55

Family medicine

11

25

22

40

21

38

13

31

24

46

22

45

6

42

119

267

386

General surgery

9

2

21

7

12

7

11

11

6

3

7

6

8

11

74

47

121

Haematology

0

0

1

13

1

3

0

3

1

2

2

2

1

9

6

32

38

Histopathology

0

10

0

0

2

1

0

0

4

9

1

8

0

10

7

38

45

Internal medicine

6

3

10

10

14

13

11

16

14

13

13

13

10

9

78

77

155

Medical microbiology

3

1

0

0

4

4

0

0

0

3

0

3

1

11

8

22

30

Obst and Gyne

0

11

0

13

0

5

0

7

0

7

0

7

0

5

0

55

55

Ophthalmology

5

8

8

15

6

13

6

9

4

3

4

5

1

5

34

58

92

Orthopaedics

0

0

15

3

20

0

13

1

12

1

5

0

5

1

70

6

76

Oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS)

0

0

0

2

4

0

2

0

2

2

4

1

3

3

15

8

23

Paediatrics

12

18

8

24

5

30

12

24

10

12

9

20

9

22

65

150

215

Psychiatry

8

12

3

12

4

3

3

7

3

5

2

5

7

7

30

51

81

Radiology

13

18

7

21

5

8

4

5

1

7

3

10

3

23

36

92

128

Sub-total

94

137

116

195

120

172

97

144

92

132

84

144

65

195

668

1119

 

Total

231

311

292

241

224

228

260

1787