Table 1.
Demographics, AI usage, and education status of participants
| Gender, n (%) | |
| Male | 93 (63.3%) |
| Female | 54 (36.7%) |
| Age, median (IQR) | 39 (35–46) |
| Years as physician, median (IQR) | 14 (10–22) |
| Years in oncology, median (IQR) | 5 (2–14) |
| Site of practice, n (%) | |
| University hospital | 70 (47.6%) |
| Training and research hospital | 46 (31.3%) |
| Private hospital | 20 (13.6%) |
| State hospital | 8 (5.4%) |
| Private clinic | 3 (2.0%) |
| Educational and academic status, n (%) | |
| Resident, fellow | 56 (38.1%) |
| Specialist | 33 (22.4%) |
| Professor | 31 (21.1%) |
| Associate professor | 24 (16.3%) |
| Assistant professor | 3 (2.0%) |
| Used any artificial intelligence before, n (%)* | |
| ChatGPT and other GPT models | 114 (77.5%) |
| Google Gemini | 25 (17.0%) |
| Microsoft Bing | 16 (10.9%) |
| Others** | 13 (8.8%) |
| Have not used any | 33 (22.5%) |
| Artificial intelligence education status, n (%) | |
| Not received any education | 133 (90.5%) |
| Received basic-level education | 10 (6.8%) |
| Received advanced-level education | 3 (2.0%) |
| Received intermediate-level education | 1 (0.7%) |
| Will to receive education for artificial intelligence, n (%) | |
| Yes | 139 (94.6%) |
| No | 8 (5.4%) |
| Resources used to acquire knowledge about artificial intelligence, n (%)* | |
| Colleagues | 39 (26.5%) |
| Academic publications | 34 (23.1%) |
| Online courses and websites (e.g., Coursera, EDx) | 32 (21.8%) |
| Popular science publications | 29 (19.7%) |
| Conferences and workshops | 27 (18.4%) |
| Other periodicals | 7 (4.8%) |
| Others*** | 8 (5.4%) |
| Do not using any resources | 57 (38.8%) |
*Percentages shown for total participant counts
**Other artificial intelligences, include Meta LLAMA, X Grok, Google Bard, Perplexity, Anthropic Claude
***Other resources include social media and non-academic books
IQR Interquartile range