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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Aug 26.
Published in final edited form as: Acad Med. 2011 May;86(5):618–627. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e318212eb00

Table 3.

Response Rates and Socio-demographic Characteristics of 684 Medical Students, Internal Medicine Residents, and Academic General Internists at Three US Medical Schools Who Responded to the Survey, 2008

Characteristic Total sample Group
Students Residents Faculty
Participants: no. 684 255 264 165
Response rate: % 75 80 74 72
Age in years: mean (± SD) 31 (8.7) 26 (3.5) 29 (2.5) 44 (9.3)
Men: no. (%) 366 (54) 131 (51) 139 (53) 96 (58)
Years since medical school graduation: no. (± SD) 7.5 (9.3)* N/A 1.8 (2.2) 16.6 (9.1)
Received formal physical examination training during medical school: no. (%) 624 (91) 239 (94) 246 (93) 139 (84)
Received formal physical examination training during residency: no. (%) * 101 (24)* N/A 57 (22) 44 (27)
Received formal evidence-based medicine training during medical school: no. (%) 477 (70) 212 (83) 199 (75) 66 (40)
Received formal evidence-based medicine training during residency: no. (%)* 255 (59)* N/A 169 (64) 86 (52)
*

Total does not include medical students