TABLE 3.

Comparison of specialty importance between residents and training programs. Topics showing poor agreement in perceived level of importance between residents and programs are shown (defined by a kappa (ĸ) value of less than 0.2)

Subspecialty Topic	Residents rating topic as less important (n =127)	Programs viewed as placing less importance on topic (n =127)	KAPPA (ĸ)
Areas in which recent graduates felt deficient
Dermatology	25	82	0.02
Nutrition	22	79	0.10
Allergy and immunology	44	75	0.11
Adolescent medicine	33	42	0.12
Orthopedics	49	83	0.13
Child psychiatry	38	60	0.17
Behavioural paediatrics	28	64	0.17
Development	8	15	0.17
Areas where recent graduates felt competent
Radiology	38	77	0.16
General surgery	51	26	0.20

Data presented as %, unless otherwise indicated. The table is subdivided into two sections: the areas where recently graduated Canadian paediatricians felt deficient, and the areas in which they felt competent (as shown by Leiberman and Hilliard [3]).