TABLE 5.

Oral health education and training received by paediatricians and family physicians in Canada

Oral health training	Paediatricians (n=237)	Family physicians (n=300)	P
Received training in … (%)
Medical school	18.2	37.7	<0.001*
Residency	20.3	11.1	0.003*
Practice experience	49.2	43.8	0.216*
Journals and CME	29.7	15.8	<0.001*
Oral health pamphlets	13.6	10.4	0.268*
Hours of training in medical school or residency (%)
None	17.9	22.3
Less than 1 h	23.9	30.7	0.036*
1 h to 3 h	37.2	35.5
More than 3 h to 6 h	11.1	7.3
More than 6 h	9.9	4.2
Quality of training (%)
Did not receive any training or cannot recall	40.2	49.0	0.001*
Poor to fair	45.8	45.6
Good to excellent	14.0	5.4
No oral health CME course taken in the past five years	47.0	74.0	<0.001*
Mean number of hours among those who have taken oral health CME courses (SD)	1.8 (4.1)	0.8 (2.4)	0.001†

^*χ² test;

^†Student’s t test. CME Continuing medical education