1. An Analysis of Preclinical Students' Perceptions of Cardiothoracic Surgical Procedures 
Vikram Sood, BS, Rishindra M. Reddy, MD 
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 
Volume 94, Issue 3, Pages (September 2012)
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2. Fig 1
Respondents rated intellectual stimulation as more important than time for family, financial security, or medical school debt when considering a specialty. When compared, the premedical (PM) group placed greater value on intellectual stimulation than did the medical (M) group (premedical, 9.4 ± 1.1 vs medical, 9.0 ± 1.4; p < 0.05).
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3. Fig 2
Respondents agreed that cardiothoracic surgery residency was too lengthy a training program (total mean = 5.7; total SD = 2.3) but were neutral toward the suggestions that cardiothoracic surgeons were generally impolite (x = 3.9; SD = 2.1), that cardiothoracic surgery did not have a strong variety of procedures (x = 3.8; SD = 1.9), that cardiothoracic surgeons were not compensated well enough (x = 3.9; SD = 1.9), and that cardiothoracic surgeons were losing ground to interventional radiology (IR) or cardiology (x = 4.0; SD = 2.2). When compared, the medical (M) group found cardiothoracic surgeons to be generally impolite more often than did the premedical (PM) group (medical, 5.1 ± 2.2 vs premedical, 3.6 ± 2.0; p < 0.01). The medical group also found cardiothoracic residency to be too lengthy compared with the premedical group (medical 6.6, ± 2.0 vs premedical, 5.5 ± 2.3; p < 0.01).
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