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. 2012 Mar 12;7(3):e32089. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032089

Table 1. Characteristics of study participants.

All specialties Anesthesiology Internal medicine Obstetrics & Gynecology Pediatrics Surgery
Number of residency programs 17 1 1 9 4 2
Number of faculty evaluated (% of the faculty that could be evaluated) 423 (96%) 42 (100%) 56 (88%) 110 (96%) 178 (97%) 37 (100%)
Number of residents (% of the residents invited) 219 (69%) 25 (68%) 40 (73%) 64 (72%) 69 (65%) 21 (72%)
Number of evaluations 2111 362 263 532 670 284
Median number of evaluations per faculty (min-max) 4 (1–20) 8 (3–19) 3 (1–18) 5 (1–11) 2.5 (1–20) 7 (5–12)
Percentage of female faculty 45.6% 34.1% 40.4% 52.8% 51.9% 16.7%
Percentage of female residents 61.5% 64.0% 52.5% 71.9% 64.7% 33.3%
Experience: Mean number of years in practice since fist registration an specialist (± SD) 12 (±9) 13 (±10) 13 (±10) 13 (±10) 11 (±9) 13 (±10)
Mean faculty age (± SD) 46.7 (±8.5) 49.3 (±8.4) 47.3 (±8.9) 48.3 (±8.5) 44.6 (±8.0) 48.1 (±9.0)