Table 2

Career preferences 1 year after graduation: percentages (numbers) of graduates who specified general practice as their choice of future career, grouped by clinical medical school attended

Untied first choice for GP % (n)Any first choice for GP % (n)Any choice for GP % (n)Total N
England
Oxford and Cambridge
 Cambridge13.0 (56)21.1 (91)34.5 (149)432
 Oxford10.9 (46)17.7 (75)36.2 (153)423
Total Oxford and Cambridge11.9 (102)19.4 (166)35.3 (302)855
London
 Imperial College18.1 (140)23.3 (180)41.3 (320)774
 King's College17.5 (167)24.9 (237)44.9 (427)952
 Queen Mary and Westfield22.2 (123)30.8 (171)49.0 (272)555
 St George's21.0 (110)30.3 (159)48.9 (256)524
 University College19.8 (173)26.1 (228)45.0 (393)874
Total London19.4 (713)26.5 (975)45.3 (1668)3679
Other English schools
 Birmingham25.5 (198)34.3 (266)55.2 (428)776
 Bristol18.0 (95)27.3 (144)45.6 (241)528
 Leeds27.8 (166)37.6 (225)56.0 (335)598
 Liverpool26.0 (139)36.1 (193)53.6 (287)535
 Manchester22.3 (219)30.5 (300)50.6 (498)984
 Newcastle22.6 (149)31.6 (208)50.9 (335)658
 Sheffield24.1 (162)33.6 (226)50.4 (339)673
 Nottingham22.2 (144)31.2 (203)48.9 (318)650
 Southampton24.3 (121)33.1 (165)51.6 (257)498
 Leicester20.9 (107)29.7 (152)47.9 (245)512
Total other English23.3 (1500)32.5 (2082)51.2 (3283)6412
New English schools
 Peninsula31.4 (37)40.7 (48)55.9 (66)118
 Brighton and Sussex29.0 (31)35.5 (38)57.9 (62)107
 Hull York30.4 (34)43.8 (49)65.2 (73)112
 East Anglia19.1 (17)34.8 (31)61.8 (55)89
 Warwick27.1 (56)43.0 (89)64.3 (133)207
Total new English27.6 (175)40.3 (255)61.5 (389)633
Total England21.5 (2490)30.0 (3478)48.7 (5642)11 579
Scotland
 Aberdeen24.0 (114)33.5 (159)50.9 (242)475
 Dundee27.0 (111)34.8 (143)51.1 (210)411
 Edinburgh14.9 (107)23.2 (167)39.2 (282)719
 Glasgow18.9 (122)28.6 (184)46.1 (297)644
Total Scotland20.3 (457)29.0 (653)45.8 (1031)2249
Wales (Cardiff)23.5 (166)33.9 (240)55.6 (393)707
Northern Ireland (Belfast)23.7 (128)33.5 (181)47.5 (257)541
Total21.5 (3238)30.2 (4552)48.6 (7323)15 076
  • In each column, the overall χ2 test for significant differences by medical school was significant at P<0.001. Percentages which are higher or lower than the overall average (P<0.01), based on analysis of adjusted standardised residuals, are marked bold in each column. Excludes 27 doctors who replied in year 1 but whose medical school was unknown.