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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Sci Eng Ethics. 2012 Oct 25;19(3):813–834. doi: 10.1007/s11948-012-9410-7

Table 1.

Personal and professional characteristics of N=1267 survey respondents.

n valid M (SD) / %

Male 957 60.2%
Hispanic 963 3.2%
Race 946
White 75.6%
Asian 13.7%
African American 1.3%
Other 1.2%
Decline response 8.3%
Years since doctoral degree 942 20.2 (11.7)
First doctoral degree in US 965 80.0%
Earned doctoral degree(s) 1191
PhD 73.0%
MD 14.9%
MD / PhD 6.8%
Other 5.4%
Department type 1267
Basic sciences 48.3%
Medicine 21.1%
Applied health and sciences 20.0%
Missing 10.6%
Academic rank 1176
Professor 37.5%
Associate professor 24.9%
Assistant professor 23.4%
Post-doctoral 9.8%
Other 4.4%
Tenure status 1150
Tenured 48.2%
Not on tenure track 33.9%
Not yet tenured 17.9%