Table 3. Participation in activities and acceptance of gifts from industry stratified by position (attendings vs. residents).
Attendings | Residents | p-value | |
Monthly encounters with pharmaceutical representatives | |||
≥5 encounters | 67 (73.6%) | 11 (19.6%) | <0.001 |
Number of occasions in which medical samples are received in a month | |||
≥5 occasions | 62 (68.1%) | 9 (16.1%) | <0.001 |
Number of occasions in which promotional material is received in a month | |||
≥5 occasions | 35 (38.5%) | 6 (10.7%) | <0.001 |
Registration to conferences financed by the pharmaceutical industry in a year † | |||
≥1 registration‡ | 35 (38.9%) | 17 (30.9%) | 0.427 |
One teaching attending did not answer this question.