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Ethnic differences in specialty destinations in UK medicine: a repeated cross-sectional analysis of secondary data.

J R Soc Med · 2026 · PMC13294109 · PMID 42339794

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an overall trendno p-value reported
Ethnic differences between specialty groups were more marked at entry into training, and there was an overall trend of increasing diversity of the study population over time at both levels.

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practically significantno p-value reported
We considered a tau-b coefficient of greater than 0.33 to be practically significant, based on the large effect size threshold of 0.5 for Pearson’s r and applying Gilpin’s method of transforming tau-b to r . 17 With 36 tests at CT/ST1 and 33 at CCT level (one for each specialty group/ethnicity group combination), p -values of <0.0014 and <0.0016 would be required for statistical significance, using the Dunn–Sidak correction for multiple comparisons.

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