Table 1 Demographic characteristics
From: Medical students’ perceptions of prosocial behaviors: a grounded theory study in China
Demographic information (numbers expressed as percentages and (n)) | |
Mean age (years) | 22.1 |
Male | 17.8 (5) |
Female | 82.1 (23) |
Specialty | |
Clinical Medicine | 46.4 (13) |
Pediatrics | 10.7 (3) |
Anesthesiology | 7.1 (2) |
Nursing | 7.1 (2) |
Medical Laboratory | 7.1 (2) |
Preventive Medicine | 3.5 (1) |
Biomedical | 3.5 (1) |
Dentistry | 7.1 (2) |
Traditional Chinese Medicine | 7.1 (2) |
In China, undergraduates start choosing a major and working towards it from their first year of study | |
Region | |
North China | 17.8 (5) |
East China | 14.2 (4) |
Northeast China | 28.5 (8) |
Central China | 3.5 (1) |
South China | 17.8 (5) |
Southwest China | 3.5 (1) |
Northwest China | 14.2 (4) |