1. Gender differences in attrition rates of hospital-based medical specialty programs: attributable to gender composition of the clinical specialty?
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Lud van der Velden, Ronald Batenburg, Victor Slenter, and Olivia Butterman
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medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Family medicine ,medicine ,Specialty ,Attrition ,Hospital based ,medicine.disease ,business ,Composition (language) - Abstract
Background Since 1999 the Advisory Committee on Medical Manpower Planning (ACMMP) advises the Dutch government on the medical workforce capacity and the intake in training programs, as to achieve or maintain a balance on the labour market. One of the key parameters the ACMMP uses when calculating the required intake in training programs, is the attrition rate. Methods In total 11,579 trainees enrolled in hospital-based programs from January 1st 2003 until 31st of December 2012, for 26 specialisms. To explore possible explanations for the gender differences in attrition rate per specialty, additional information was gathered: the percentage of males per program, the total number of specialists in training, the duration of the training and the percentage of males currently working in that specialty. Results One training program was excluded, due to the small size of that training program (62 trainees) and the large outliers it produced. Regression analyses were done, showing significant explanations of the variation in the difference between male and female attrition rates (Y1), for the proportion of males working in the profession per 01-01-2003 (R2: .545, F(27,60), p 2: .417, F(16,01), p 2: .163, F(4,46), p 2: .299, F(9,85), p
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- 2020
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