Table 1.
Program Directors’ and Residents’ Preferences for Percentage of Training Time in the Outpatient Environment, 2007*
| Percentage of training preferred in the outpatient environment, no. (%) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| < 25% | 25–32% | 33–49% | 50–66% | 67–75% | >75% | Missing | |
| Program directors (n = 222) | 9 (4.1) | 83 (37.6) | 101 (45.7) | 23 (10.4) | 5 (2.3) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.5) |
| Residents (n = 14,941) | 2,444 (16.4) | 5,942 (39.9) | 4,143 (27.8) | 1,887 (12.7) | 348 (2.3) | 134 (0.9) | 43 (0.3) |
| Year of training | 43 (0.3) | ||||||
| First-year | 846 (18.5) | 1,961 (42.9) | 1,161 (25.4) | 487 (10.7) | 76 (1.7) | 41 (0.9) | |
| Second-year | 891 (15.9) | 2,239 (40.1) | 1,545 (27.6) | 730 (13.1) | 138 (2.5) | 45 (0.8) | |
| Third-year | 707 (14.9) | 1,742 (36.8) | 1,437 (30.3) | 670 (14.1) | 134 (2.8) | 48 (1.0) | |
| Sex | 104 (0.7) | ||||||
| Male | 1,698 (20.0) | 3,642 (42.9) | 2,101 (24.8) | 833 (9.8) | 150 (1.8) | 58 (0.7) | |
| Female | 738 (11.6) | 2,271 (35.7) | 2,024 (31.8) | 1,050 (15.5) | 197 (3.1) | 75 (1.2) | |
| Program type | 43 (0.3) | ||||||
| Primary care | 70 (8.4) | 223 (26.8) | 300 (36.1) | 183 (22.0) | 38 (4.6) | 18 (2.2) | |
| Categorical | 2,374 (16.9) | 5,719 (40.7) | 3,843 (27.3) | 1,704 (12.1) | 310 (2.2) | 116 (0.8) | |
| Career plan | 70 (0.5) | ||||||
| Pulmonary/ Critical Care | 271 (26.9) | 445 (44.2) | 218 (21.6) | 61 (6.1) | 10 (1.0) | 2 (0.2) | |
| Cardiology | 516 (24.6) | 992 (47.2) | 417 (19.9) | 151 (7.2) | 22 (1.0) | 2 (0.1) | |
| Hospitalist | 208 (26.5) | 339 (43.2) | 177 (22.6) | 49 (6.3) | 7 (0.9) | 4 (0.5) | |
| Nephrology | 148 (16.5) | 409 (45.5) | 241 (26.8) | 83 (9.2) | 15 (1.7) | 2 (0.2) | |
| Infectious disease | 105 (17.4) | 256 (42.5) | 167 (27.7) | 61 (10.1) | 9 (1.5) | 4 (0.7) | |
| Gastroenterology | 214 (16.7) | 542 (42.2) | 370 (28.8) | 138 (10.7) | 13 (1.0) | 7 (0.5) | |
| Hematology/ oncology | 179 (13.7) | 538 (41.0) | 387 (29.5) | 166 (12.7) | 33 (2.5) | 8 (0.6) | |
| General internal medicine | 264 (9.5) | 853 (30.8) | 915 (33.1) | 553 (20.0) | 124 (4.5) | 58 (2.1) | |
| Endocrinology | 52 (7.4) | 230 (33.0) | 256 (36.7) | 118 (16.9) | 31 (4.4) | 11 (1.6) | |
| Rheumatology | 31 (7.9) | 114 (29.1) | 138 (35.2) | 85 (21.7) | 14 (3.6) | 10 (2.6) | |
| Geriatrics | 7 (4.1) | 46 (26.9) | 62 (36.3) | 44 (25.7) | 11 (6.4) | 1 (0.6) | |
| Other† | 72 (17.7) | 141 (34.6) | 109 (26.8) | 60 (14.7) | 17 (4.2) | 8 (2.0) | |
| Undecided Subspecialty | 209 (14.2) | 642 (43.6) | 405 (27.5) | 188 (12.8) | 22 (1.5) | 6 (0.4) | |
| Undecided | 166 (17.1) | 379 (39.0) | 274 (28.2) | 124 (12.8) | 18 (1.9) | 10 (1.0) | |
*This table shows program directors’ and residents’ preferences regarding the percentage of training time that should be spent in the outpatient setting for the subset of 222 program directors and 14,941 categorical and primary care internal medicine residents responding to each question on the 2007 Internal Medicine In-Training Examination Program Directors Survey and Residents Questionnaire. Survey items used to solicit this information are shown in Appendix Fig. 1
†Includes other subspecialties and non-internal medicine careers