Table 1.

Baseline Respondent Characteristics by Experience Level

Characteristic	Novice interns n = 25	Experienced interns n = 23	p-value
Male gender, n (%)	11 (46 %)*	11 (48 %)	0.89
Intensive care months, mean ± SD
As a medical student	0.7 ± 0.6	0.7 ± 0.6	0.93
As an intern	0.1 ± 0.2	1.5 ± 0.5	<0.001
Intended specialty, n (%)			0.19
Primary care†	4 (16 %)	4 (17 %)
Medical sub-specialty‡	8 (32 %)	13 (57 %)
Nonmedical specialty§	5 (20 %)	4 (17 %)
Undecided/unknown	8 (32 %)	2 (9 %)

^*Gender missing for one novice intern ^†Includes internal medicine, medicine-pediatrics, and geriatrics ^‡Includes cardiology, gastroenterology, hematology/oncology, infectious disease, and pulmonary/critical care ^§Includes anesthesia, ophthalmology, dermatology, and radiology