Factors influencing medical students’ choice of emergency medicine as a career specialty—a descriptive study of Saudi medical students

Table 5 Comparison of students’ demographic characteristics according to career choice

Demographic characteristics	% of students (n = 436)
Demographic characteristics	EM	CL	PC	SS
Men compared with women	56	44	51	69
Men’s preferences	8	15	36	40
Women’s preferences	8	25	44	23
First-year students’ preferences	9	16	38	38
Second-year students’ preferences	7	24	39	31
Third-year students’ preferences	11	16	42	32
Final-year students’ preferences	2	27	44	27

EM emergency medicine, CL controllable lifestyle, PC primary care, SS surgical specialty

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