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KCE Reports 90 Making General Practice Attractive: Encouraging GP attraction and Retention 43
Students
who choose
another
specialty
than GP (%)
Students
who choose
to become
a GP (%) Cramer's V
P-value
Cramer’s V n
Gender 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
French 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
General 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
General 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 dentist in your immediate family (brother, sister, parent,
uncle, aunt, grandparent)? 0,101 0,038 423
Yes 48,2 37,6
This table shows four statistically significant differences between GP and other specialty
students.
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 seventh
year. The same relationship can be found for children of specialists. The relationship
between the father’s profession and the specialty choice of the student is still