Career specialty and employment status at the time of survey of graduates of 1974 and 1977
| Employment status | |||||
| Full-time in medicine | Part-time in medicine | ‘Retired and returned’ | Retired | Total N (100%) | |
| % | % | % | % | % | |
| Total | |||||
| 18.4 | 10.6 | 26.7 | 44.3 | 3435 | |
| General practice | 10.1 | 13.6 | 22.0 | 54.2 | 1676 |
| Hospital medicine | 28.7 | 9.3 | 28.5 | 33.5 | 582 |
| Surgery | 33.3 | 7.5 | 32.7 | 26.4 | 504 |
| Anaesthesia | 19.2 | 6.1 | 27.1 | 47.7 | 214 |
| Psychiatry | 15.1 | 7.3 | 40.6 | 37.0 | 192 |
| Pathology | 17.7 | 5.7 | 28.5 | 48.1 | 158 |
| Radiology | 25.7 | 7.3 | 33.0 | 33.9 | 109 |
| Women | |||||
| 10.5 | 12.0 | 20.6 | 56.9 | 1033 | |
| General practice | 6.0 | 14.4 | 16.1 | 63.4 | 547 |
| Hospital medicine | 15.8 | 8.9 | 21.6 | 53.7 | 190 |
| Surgery | 23.6 | 11.1 | 26.4 | 38.9 | 72 |
| Anaesthesia | 17.3 | 3.8 | 17.3 | 61.5 | 52 |
| Psychiatry | 10.0 | 10.0 | 42.2 | 37.8 | 90 |
| Pathology | 7.5 | 9.4 | 20.8 | 62.3 | 53 |
| Radiology | 20.7 | 13.8 | 24.1 | 41.4 | 29 |
| Men | |||||
| 21.8 | 10.0 | 29.3 | 38.9 | 2402 | |
| General practice | 12.1 | 13.2 | 24.9 | 49.8 | 1129 |
| Hospital medicine | 34.9 | 9.4 | 31.9 | 23.7 | 392 |
| Surgery | 35.0 | 6.9 | 33.8 | 24.3 | 432 |
| Anaesthesia | 19.8 | 6.8 | 30.2 | 43.2 | 162 |
| Psychiatry | 19.6 | 4.9 | 39.2 | 36.3 | 102 |
| Pathology | 22.9 | 3.8 | 32.4 | 41.0 | 105 |
| Radiology | 27.5 | 5.0 | 36.3 | 31.3 | 80 |
Percentages are row percentages. Excludes 32 respondents working in non-medical jobs and 228 whose employment status and/or career specialty was unknown.
See Method section for explanation of career specialty grouping.
For detailed specialty breakdown in each cohort, with numbers and percentages, see Supplementary tables 1 and 2.