Table 1:
Characteristics of Physician Respondents
| Gender | Female: | 53 % | ||
| Male : | 47% | |||
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| Age | 35 ± 9.5 years | |||
| Years in practice | 10 ± 8.6 years | |||
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| Specialty/Sub-Specialty training | Psychiatry | 64% | Pain medicine | 0.36% |
| Other | 17% | Palliative care | 1.1% | |
| Family Medicine | 10 % | Hematology/Oncology | 1.8% | |
| Internal Medicine | 5.6% | Infectious Diseases | 2.1% | |
| Neurology | 4.6% | Addiction | 11% | |
| Obstetrics-Gynecology | 2.5% | Other | 32% | |
| General Surgery | 2.2% | No sub-specialty training | 47% | |
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| Practice Setting | Medical School/University | 52% | Inpatient. | 48% |
| Other | 34% | Outpatient | 52% | |
| Individual private practice | 6.9% | |||
| Group private practice | 3.8% | |||
| Medical home | 1.9% | |||
| Veterans Affairs facility | 1.2% | |||
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| Patient Population treated | Child and Adolescent | 26% | ||
| Adult | 68% | |||
| Geriatric | 28% | |||
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| Experience prescribing medical cannabis | Recommend | 0.71% | ||
| Refer out | 2.5% | |||
| Do not recommend | 12.1% | |||
| Do not know enough. | 33.2% | |||
| Never recommended but open | 51.4% | |||