Table 3

Proportion of disciplined surgeons, by specialty (2000–2017)

Speciality	Total no. of surgeons disciplined	No. (%)^*		p value
Speciality	Total no. of surgeons disciplined	Proportion of specialty surgeons among all surgeons disciplined	Proportion of specialty surgeons among all practising surgeons in 2017^†	p value
Obstetrics and gynecology	57	57/174 (32.8)	2315/10383 (22.3)	< 0.001
General surgery	48	48/174 (27.6)	2055/10383 (19.8)	0.011
Orthopedic surgery	27	27/174 (15.5)	1671/10383 (16.1)	0.834
Ophthalmology	11	11/174 (6.3)	1301/10383 (12.5)	0.014
Urology	10	10/174 (5.7)	728/10383 (7.0)	0.516
Plastic surgery	8	8/174 (4.6)	614/10383 (5.9 )	0.465
Otolaryngology	7	7/174 (4.0)	792/10383 (7.6)	0.075
Neurosurgery	4	4/174 (2.3 )	340/10383 (3.3)	0.472
Vascular surgery	2	2/174 (1.1)	202/10383 (1.9)	0.447

↵* Unless indicated otherwise.
↵† There was found to be no significant difference in the national proportion of surgeons by year, thus the 2017 statistics were chosen to be a representative sample.