Percentages of responding doctors who agreed and disagreed with the statement ‘Generally speaking, GP training in the UK is of a higher quality than training in the hospital specialties’: responses in 2015 of the UK medical graduates of 2012a
| Career choice | Sex | Strongly agree/agree | Neither agree nor disagree | Strongly disagree/disagree | No opinion | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | Male and female | 22.6 | 18.6 | 26.4 | 32.4 | 100 (N = 2012) |
| Male | 20.6 | 18.0 | 26.4 | 35.0 | 100 (N= 798) | |
| Female | 23.9 | 19.0 | 26.4 | 30.7 | 100 (N= 1214) | |
| General practice | Male and female | 35.5 | 25.4 | 21.5 | 17.6 | 100 (N= 563) |
| Male | 35.4 | 26.5 | 22.2 | 15.9 | 100 (N= 189) | |
| Female | 35.6 | 24.9 | 21.1 | 18.4 | 100 (N= 374) | |
| Hospital medicine | Male and female | 16.7 | 15.1 | 29.3 | 38.9 | 100 (N= 1208) |
| Male | 15.2 | 14.4 | 28.5 | 41.9 | 100 (N= 513) | |
| Female | 17.8 | 15.5 | 29.9 | 36.7 | 100 (N= 695) | |
↵a Statistical tests: male versus female: all career choices χ2 (3 degrees of freedom [df]) = 5.3, P = 0.15; general practice choices χ2 (3 df) = 0.7, P = 0.88; hospital practice choices χ2 (3 df) = 3.8, P = 0.29.