Percentages of responding doctors who agreed with the statement ‘My exposure to general practice has been insufficient for me to assess it as a career option’ presented 3 years after graduationa
| Responders’ career choice | Sex | Year of survey | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 2005 | 2015 | All years | ||
| All specialties | Male and female | 38.7 | 29.4 | 27.7 | 32.4 |
| Male | 42.7 | 33.2 | 30.0 | 36.4 | |
| Female | 35.3 | 27.1 | 26.2 | 29.7 | |
| General practice | Male and female | 15.6 | 10.3 | 18.4 | 14.8 |
| Male | 15.8 | 9.1 | 19.7 | 15.5 | |
| Female | 15.5 | 10.7 | 17.8 | 14.5 | |
| Hospital practice | Male and female | 48.6 | 37.1 | 32.0 | 40.1 |
| Male | 50.1 | 38.5 | 33.8 | 42.3 | |
| Female | 47.0 | 36.2 | 30.7 | 38.3 | |
↵a Based on responses from 6791 doctors. Excludes 27 who specified ‘no opinion’ and 221 who did not answer the statement. Responders in each survey year: 1999 — 1078 male, 1267 female, total 2345; 2005 — 743 male, 1290 female, total 2033; 2015 — 691 male, 1059 female, total 1750. Appendix 2 shows the numbers and percentages in each response category. Statistical tests on the percentages strongly agreeing or agreeing: 1) male versus female, all years combined: all career choices χ2 (1 degree of freedom [df]) = 37.8, P<0.001; general practice choices χ2 (1 df) = 0.3, P = 0.60; hospital practice choices χ2 (1 df) = 7.0, P = 0.008; 2) year of survey comparisons on each row of the table (χ2 (2 df) tests): all P<0.001 except male GPs (P = 0.04) and female GPs (P = 0.01).