42 Making General Practice Attractive: Encouraging GP attraction and Retention <strong>KCE</strong> Reports 90 G3 « Vous dites la médecine générale, vous voyez les têtes qui se décomposent en disant, ah bon, mais pourquoi, ça ne va pas ? En gros, pour beaucoup de gens, 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 entering medical school. The questionnaire had two domains i.e., baseline data of students 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 students has at least one parent who is medical doctor: Table 3:Crosstab dichotomous and ordinal variables with respect to <strong>the</strong> personal characteristics and specialty choice seventh year students - Response rate by specialty choice and gender
<strong>KCE</strong> Reports 90 Making General Practice Attractive: Encouraging GP attraction and Retention 43 Students who choose ano<strong>the</strong>r specialty than GP (%) Students who choose to become a GP (%) Cramer's V P-value Cramer’s V 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 fa<strong>the</strong>r’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 O<strong>the</strong>r 1,8 1,4 What is your mo<strong>the</strong>r’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 O<strong>the</strong>r 1,8 2,1 What is <strong>the</strong> profession of your fa<strong>the</strong>r? 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 o<strong>the</strong>r function 2,5 0,7 O<strong>the</strong>r 77,1 85,1 What is <strong>the</strong> profession of your mo<strong>the</strong>r? 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 o<strong>the</strong>r function 1,1 1,4 O<strong>the</strong>r 92,1 92,8 Do you have a doctor or dentist in your immediate family (bro<strong>the</strong>r, 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 o<strong>the</strong>r specialty students. First <strong>the</strong> specialty choice is most associated with <strong>the</strong> fa<strong>the</strong>r’s profession (Cramer’s V = 0.222). Having fa<strong>the</strong>r who is GP increases <strong>the</strong> probability for choosing GP in <strong>the</strong> seventh year. The same relationship can be found for children of specialists. The relationship between <strong>the</strong> fa<strong>the</strong>r’s profession and <strong>the</strong> specialty choice of <strong>the</strong> student is still n