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Table 7 Residency in a peripheral hospital

From: Challenges to the Israeli healthcare system: attracting medical students to primary care and to the periphery

 

Periphery

No periphery

Periphery vs no periphery

N

48

382

 

Criteria for choosing a specialty

 Time with family

85.42%

66.23%

p < 0.001

 Controllable lifestyle

75.00%

65.01%

p < 0.04

 Influency of spouse

56.25%

37.40%

p < 0.01

 Specialty that deals with social issues

45.83%

27.03%

p < 0.004

 Work only in the community

18.75%

2.62%

p < 0.001

 Narrow range of medical problems

10.42%

1.83%

p < 0.001

 Advancing rapidly

47.92%

62.30%

p < 0.05

 Opportunity for research

29.17%

40.94%

p < 0.03

 Bedside specialty

91.67%

93.10%

NS

 Wide rangeof medical problems

62.50%

72.44%

NS

 Independent practice

60.42%

55.24%

NS

 Specialty with teamwork

54.17%

47.52%

NS

 Procedures/surgery

50.00%

47.24%

NS

 High salary

50.00%

47.64%

NS

 Private practice

47.92%

41.05%

NS

 Daytime work only

27.08%

21.78%

NS

 Influence of family

14.89%

10.76%

NS

 Academic faculty member

18.75%

28.61%

NS

 Influence of classmate

4.17%

1.31%

NS

 Specialty that my coleagues choose

2.08%

0.79%

NS

Criteria for choosing a residency

 Family living location

81.25%

68.59%

p < 0.04

 Teaching students

56.25%

40.05%

p < 0.05

 Pre-determined work hours

56.25%

40.73%

p < 0.05

 Influence of family

52.08%

32.98%

p < 0.02

 Much supervision by senior physicians

50.00%

42.15%

p < 0.03

 Primary care

42.22%

14.72%

p < 0.0004

 Limited work hours

41.67%

21.26%

p < 0.03

 Much clinic time

33.33%

8.38%

p < 0.001

 Leading department

58.33%

78.59%

p < 0.0001

 Large hosptial

46.81%

60.05%

p < 0.003

 Intellectual challenge

77.08%

82.77%

NS

 Controllable lifestyle

77.08%

61.56%

NS

 Specific location

75.00%

65.79%

NS

 Making clinical decisions on your own

62.50%

53.26%

NS

 Much “action”

43.75%

40.31%

NS

 Physical challenge

41.67%

41.10%

NS

 Short residency

22.92%

15.18%

NS

 Opportunity for research

20.83%

25.85%

NS

 Many on-call shifts

16.67%

9.14%

NS

  1. Percent of “agree” and “agree much” responses on 5-point Likert Scale
  2. Numbers in parenthesis are the results of factor analysis
  3. aClusters per cluster analysis
  4. Bold results represent the higher value of a statisitcally significant pair