Open AccessApplication rates to surgical residency programs in Canada
Author(s) -
Todd Dow,
Connor McGuire,
Emma Crawley,
Dafydd A. Davies
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
canadian medical education journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1923-1202
DOI - 10.36834/cmej.58444
Subject(s) - specialty , graduation (instrument) , medicine , descriptive statistics , otorhinolaryngology , orthopedic surgery , matching (statistics) , vascular surgery , family medicine , medical education , surgery , statistics , pathology , geometry , mathematics , cardiac surgery
The purpose of this study is to identify if the previously reported declining interest in surgery amongst medical students persists, and also to provide more descriptive analysis of trends by surgical specialty and medical school. Our hypothesis is that the previously reported decreasing interest in surgery remains constant for some surgical disciplines.