Shortage in general practice despite the feminisation of the medical workforce: a seeming paradox? A cohort study

Table 3 Multiple regression analysis.

	Before clerkship		After clerkship
Independent variables	Model 1	Model 2	Model 1	Model 2
Gender	.314**	.069	.222**	-.060
Background characteristics
Having considered allied profession		.189**		.066
Physician parent		-.063		.074
Work experience in patient care		.033		-.007
Other health care education		.189**		.074
Preferred patients category and type of work
Chronically ill patients and palliative care		.025		.148*
Acute patients and technology-oriented work		-.184*		-.260**
Preferred work conditions
Prestige orientation		-.114		-.155*
Controllable lifestyle orientation		.087		.100
Assessment of becoming a general practitioner
Work intrinsic		.121		.310**
Work extrinsic		.201**		.077
Work conditions		.018		.115
Adjusted R²	.097	.405	.043	.458

The dependent variable is the likelihood of becoming a general practitioner before and after the general practice clerkship among medical students of the Maastricht University in 2002/03. Independent variable values are standardized Beta. N = 175.
** p < 0.01; * p < .05

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