COVID-19 and Access to Medical Professional Careers: Does Gender Matter?
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Data
2.2. Method
3. Estimation and Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Indicator | Variable | Definition | Expected Sign |
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Test | Valid | Quantitative variable indicating the total number of correct answers obtained by each candidate | The expected sign of this variable is positive |
Scale | Quantitative variable obtained by multiplying the evaluation of each candidate’s file by 10 and dividing the product by the average of the ten best exams of the corresponding exercise | ||
Demographic factors | Sex | Dichotomous variable that takes the value 0 if the applicant is female, 1 otherwise | A priori, the expected sign of this variable can be + or – |
Nationality | Dichotomous variable that takes the value 0 if the applicant is of Spanish nationality, 1 otherwise | ||
Calendar | MIR_2020 | Dichotomous variable that takes the value 1 if the sample observation corresponds to the 2020 call, otherwise 0 | A priori, the expected sign of this variable can be + or − |
MIR_2021 | Dichotomous variable that takes the value 1 if the sample observation corresponds to the call for the year 2021, 0 otherwise |
Indicator | Period 2019–2021 (n = 32,909) | ||||||
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Demographic factors | Qualitative Variables | Number of Cases | Frequency % | ||||
Sex | Woman | 21,104 | 64.12 | ||||
Men | 11,805 | 35.88 | |||||
Nationality | Spanish | 26,278 | 79.85 | ||||
Foreign | 6631 | 20.15 | |||||
Calendar | MIR call | MIR_2019 | 12,172 | 36.98 | |||
MIR_2020 | 10,805 | 32.83 | |||||
MIR_2021 | 9932 | 30.19 | |||||
Test | Quantitative Variables | Mean | Median | RIC | Minimum | Maximum | Std Deviation |
Valid | 118.05 | 119.00 | 103–132 | 65.00 | 182.00 | 19.24 | |
Scale | 7.41 | 7.49 | 6.99–8.01 | 5.00 | 10.00 | 0.92 |
Dependent Variable: Score | ||||
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Variable | Coefficient | Std. Error | t-Statistic | Prob. |
67.38699 | 0.013463 | 5005.424 | 0.0000 | |
Valid | 0.719289 | 0.001214 | 592.6089 | 0.0000 |
Scale | 1.175895 | 0.015254 | 77.08963 | 0.0000 |
Sex | −0.362214 | 0.191619 | −1.890279 | 0.0587 |
Nationality | −0.000772 | 0.027128 | −0.028448 | 0.9773 |
MIR_2020 | 0.603623 | 0.020200 | 29.88237 | 0.0000 |
MIR_2021 | −10.67533 | 0.032173 | −331.8055 | 0.0000 |
0.003035 | 0.001643 | 1.847576 | 0.0110 | |
−0.000831 | 0.042103 | −0.019736 | 0.9843 | |
−0.064417 | 0.064889 | −0.992732 | 0.3208 | |
R-squared | 0.985387 | Mean dependent var. | 64.39472 | |
Adjusted R-squared | 0.985383 | S.D. dependent var. | 13.61364 | |
S.E. of regression | 1.645913 | Akaike info criterion | 3.834772 | |
Sum squared resid. | 89,045.83 | Schwarz criterion | 3.837327 | |
Log likelihood | −63,033.65 | Hannan-Quinn criter. | 3.835588 | |
F-statistic | 246,273.3 | Durbin–Watson stat. | 1.996789 | |
Prob(F-statistic) | 0.000000 | Wald F-statistic | 124,176.6 | |
Prob(Wald F-statistic) | 0.000000 |
Variable | Coefficient | Standardized Coefficient | Range |
---|---|---|---|
67.38699 | NA | ||
Valid | 0.719289 | 1.016319 | 1 |
Scale | 1.175895 | 0.079978 | 3 |
Sex | −0.362214 | −0.012756 | 6 |
Nationality | −0.000772 | −2.27 × 10−5 | 8 |
MIR_2020 | 0.603623 | 0.020827 | 4 |
MIR_2021 | −10.67533 | −0.359770 | 2 |
0.003035 | 0.012930 | 5 | |
−0.000831 | −1.68 × 10−5 | 9 | |
−0.064417 | −0.001239 | 7 |
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Díaz-Fernández, M.; Llorente-Marrón, M.; Cocina-Díaz, V.; Asensi, V. COVID-19 and Access to Medical Professional Careers: Does Gender Matter? Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20, 6477. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20156477
Díaz-Fernández M, Llorente-Marrón M, Cocina-Díaz V, Asensi V. COVID-19 and Access to Medical Professional Careers: Does Gender Matter? International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2023; 20(15):6477. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20156477
Chicago/Turabian StyleDíaz-Fernández, Montserrat, Mar Llorente-Marrón, Virginia Cocina-Díaz, and Victor Asensi. 2023. "COVID-19 and Access to Medical Professional Careers: Does Gender Matter?" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20, no. 15: 6477. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20156477