42 Making G<strong>en</strong>eral Practice Attractive: Encouraging GP attraction and Ret<strong>en</strong>tion KCE Reports 90 G3 « Vous dites la médecine générale, vous voyez les têtes qui se décompos<strong>en</strong>t <strong>en</strong> disant, ah bon, mais pourquoi, ça ne va pas ? En gros, pour beaucoup de g<strong>en</strong>s, surtout à l’hôpital, la médecine générale, c’est pour ceux qui ne font pas assez de points pour faire des spécialités. Et ce n’est pas pour ceux qui ont cette motivation. » 3.6 RESULTS OF THE QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS 3.6.1 Factors related to study and specialty choice before <strong>en</strong>tering medical school. The questionnaire had two domains i.e., baseline data of stud<strong>en</strong>ts and personal characteristics and motivation to choose medical education. 3.6.1.1 Personal Characteristics in relation with specialty choice A major observation is that about one in four stud<strong>en</strong>ts has at least one par<strong>en</strong>t who is medical doctor: Table 3:Crosstab dichotomous and ordinal variables with respect to the personal characteristics and specialty choice sev<strong>en</strong>th year stud<strong>en</strong>ts - Response rate by specialty choice and g<strong>en</strong>der
KCE Reports 90 Making G<strong>en</strong>eral Practice Attractive: Encouraging GP attraction and Ret<strong>en</strong>tion 43 Stud<strong>en</strong>ts who choose another specialty than GP (%) Stud<strong>en</strong>ts who choose to become a GP (%) Cramer's V P-value Cramer’s V n G<strong>en</strong>der 0,137 0,005 421 Man 38,6 24,8 Woman 61,4 75,2 Official language at university 0,024 0,617 423 Dutch 62,8 65,2 Fr<strong>en</strong>ch 37,2 34,8 What is your father’s highest qualification? 0,112 0,512 421 Primary education 0,7 0,7 Lower secondary 3,9 3,6 Higher secondary 14,2 13,6 Higher short-term non-university (max 3 years) 11,7 19,3 Higher long-term non-university (max 4 years) 8,9 10,7 University 58,7 50,7 Other 1,8 1,4 What is your mother’s highest qualification? 0,203 0,008 420 Primary education 1,8 0,7 Lower secondary 5,0 3,5 Higher secondary 19,0 22,7 Higher short-term non-university (max 3 years) 23,3 39,0 Higher long-term non-university (max 4 years) 8,6 7,8 University 40,5 24,1 Other 1,8 2,1 What is the profession of your father? 0,222 0,000 421 G<strong>en</strong>eral Practitioner 6,4 12,1 Clinical Specialist 13,6 1,4 Public Health Physician 0,4 0,7 Physician in some other function 2,5 0,7 Other 77,1 85,1 What is the profession of your mother? 0,145 0,066 419 G<strong>en</strong>eral Practitioner 1,1 4,3 Clinical Specialist 4,6 1,4 Public Health Physician 1,1 0,0 Physician in some other function 1,1 1,4 Other 92,1 92,8 Do you have a doctor or d<strong>en</strong>tist in your immediate family (brother, sister, par<strong>en</strong>t, uncle, aunt, grandpar<strong>en</strong>t)? 0,101 0,038 423 Yes 48,2 37,6 This table shows four statistically significant differ<strong>en</strong>ces betwe<strong>en</strong> GP and other specialty stud<strong>en</strong>ts. First the specialty choice is most associated with the father’s profession (Cramer’s V = 0.222). Having father who is GP increases the probability for choosing GP in the sev<strong>en</strong>th year. The same relationship can be found for childr<strong>en</strong> of specialists. The relationship betwe<strong>en</strong> the father’s profession and the specialty choice of the stud<strong>en</strong>t is still