Table 2 Participants’ characteristics, timing of career decision, and places of work
Characteristics of participants | n | % |
|---|---|---|
Personal information | ||
- Married | 80 | 47.9 |
- Have children | 61 | 36.5 |
- Born in the countryside | 122 | 73.1 |
PM preference when starting medical school | ||
- First choice | 100 | 59.9 |
- Second choice | 64 | 38.3 |
- No recall | 3 | 1.8 |
Places of work | ||
- Working in PM position | 88 | 52.7 |
- Non-PM position in private or non-governmental organization | 30 | 18.0 |
- Clinical doctor in hospital | 11 | 6.6 |
- Post-graduate student or working in medical school | 20 | 11.9 |
- Outside health sector | 10 | 5.9 |
- Looking for employment | 8 | 4.8 |
Level of public health care organization | ||
- Central | 78 | 46.6 |
- Province | 57 | 34.1 |
- District | 32 | 19.3 |
- Village | 0 | 0 |
Timing of decision about career choice | ||
- Before or at the time of graduation | 69 | 41.3 |
- During first job | 37 | 22.2 |
- Had not made a decision | 61 | 36.5 |
Continuation in PM position | ||
- Yes | 90 | 53.9 |
- No | 77 | 46.1 |