Table 10.
Perceived helpfulness of formal or continuing education for MOT
| Physicians No. (%) | Testing labs No. (%) | Referring labs No. (%) | p-value | ||||
| Fairly helpful | Very helpful | Fairly helpful | Very helpful | Fairly helpful | Very helpful | Fairly or very helpful | |
| Helpfulness of formal education in preparation for MOT | |||||||
| Undergraduate medical education | 37/265 (14.0) | 7/265 (2.6) | 2/5 (40.0) | 3/5 (60.0) | 10/34 (29.4) | 7/34 (20.6) | < 0.001* |
| Postgraduate medical education | 77/253 (30.4) | 33/253 (13.0) | 1/4 (25.0) | 2/4 (50.0) | 16/33 (48.5) | 13/33 (39.4) | < 0.001* |
| Master's degree (e.g., MSc, MA) | 16/88 (18.2) | 6/88 (6.8) | 0/3 (0) | 0/3 (0) | 2/9 (22.2) | 2/9 (22.2) | 0.362* |
| Doctoral degree (e.g., PhD, DPhil) | 7/65 (10.8) | 12/65 (18.5) | 5/15 (33.3) | 6/15 (40.0) | 2/7 (28.6) | 3/7 (42.9) | 0.001* |
| Post-PhD clinical training | N/A | N/A | 2/13 (15.4) | 11/13 (84.6) | 4/7 (57.1) | 2/7 (28.6) | 0.350* |
| Helpfulness of continuing education resources in maintaining knowledge of MOT | |||||||
| Discussions with colleagues | 120/264 (45.5) | 79/264 (29.9) | 5/17 (29.4) | 11/17 (64.7) | 18/35 (51.4) | 14/35 (40.0) | 0.023* |
| Conferences, workshops, meetings | 122/264 (46.2) | 73/264 (27.7) | 6/17 (35.3) | 10/17 (58.8) | 17/38 (44.7) | 17/38 (44.7) | 0.001* |
| Reading journal articles | 127/267 (47.6) | 59/267 (22.1) | 5/17 (29.4) | 11/17 (64.7) | 20/35 (57.1) | 14/35 (40.0) | < 0.001* |
| Continuing medical education (CME) | 120/262 (45.8) | 57/262 (21.8) | 8/17 (47.1) | 8/17(47.1) | 15/34 (44.1) | 18/34 (52.9) | < 0.001 |
| Electronic resources (websites, listservs, etc.) | 86/258 (33.3) | 35/258 (13.6) | 8/17 (47.1) | 7/17 (41.2) | 18/35 (51.4) | 8/35 (22.9) | < 0.001 |
| In-service training | N/A | N/A | 4/10 (40.0) | 2/10 (20.0) | 8/22 (36.4) | 5/22 (22.7) | 1.000* |
*Fisher exact test