Table 2.
Resources Available to Responding U.S. Pediatric Residency Programs Stratified by Program Size
| Resources, N (%) | Alla (N = 105) |
Small (N = 30) |
Medium (N = 51) |
Large (N = 22) |
Overall p-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Research funding | 88 (91.7) | 24 (88.9) | 41 (89.1) | 21 (100) | 0.31 |
| Research day or other venue for residents to present their work | 77 (79.4) | 21 (77.8) | 37 (78.7) | 18 (85.7) | 0.76 |
| Chairman support | 68 (70.1) | 18 (66.7) | 33 (70.2) | 15 (71.4) | 0.93 |
| Sufficient number of faculty mentors | 63 (65.0) | 14 (51.9) | 28 (59.6) | 20 (95.2) | 0.004 † ‡ |
| A statistician | 63 (65.0) | 20 (74.1) | 29 (61.7) | 12 (57.1) | 0.42 |
| Opportunity for residents to present work-in-progress | 55 (56.7) | 16 (59.3) | 21 (44.7) | 16 (76.2) | 0.049 ‡ |
| Award for resident scholarly accomplishments | 53 (54.6) | 12 (44.4) | 26 (55.3) | 14 (66.7) | 0.31 |
| A research director | 48 (49.5) | 17 (63.0) | 22 (46.8) | 7 (33.3) | 0.12 |
| A research curriculum | 34 (35.1) | 13 (48.1) | 16 (34.0) | 5 (23.8) | 0.21 |
| A scholarship review committee | 28 (28.9) | 13 (48.2) | 10 (21.3) | 4 (19.1) | 0.027 * † |
| Faculty funding to support resident scholarly activity | 11 (11.3) | 5 (18.5) | 3 (6.4) | 3 (14.3) | 0.25 |
| Required protected research time (months) | |||||
| 0 | 66 (70.2) | 21 (77.8) | 31 (70.5) | 13 (61.9) | 0.70 |
| 1 | 20 (21.3) | 5 (18.5) | 10 (22.7) | 5 (23.8) | |
| >1 | 8 (8.5) | 1 (3.7) | 3 (6.8) | 3 (14.3) | |
| A special training pathway | 13 (13.4) | 0 (0) | 3 (6.4) | 9 (42.9) | <.0001 † ‡ |
| Maximum number of additional elective time (months), | |||||
| 0 | 11 (11.5) | 5 (18.5) | 5 (10.6) | 1 (4.8) | 0.23 |
| 1 | 35 (36.5) | 11 (40.7) | 19 (40.4) | 5 (23.8) | |
| 2 | 27 (28.1) | 8 (29.6) | 12 (25.5) | 6 (28.6) | |
| 3 | 14 (14.6) | 3 (11.1) | 7 (14.9) | 4 (19.1) | |
| >=4 | 9 (9.4) | 0 (0) | 4 (8.5) | 5 (23.8) | |
| A research track within the program | 9 (9.3) | 0 (0) | 4 (8.5) | 5 (23.8) | 0.015 † |
| Protected time for faculty | 7 (7.2) | 1 (3.7) | 1 (2.1) | 4 (19.1) | 0.036 ‡ |
a
2 subjects had missing data for program size; therefore, the sum of each row may not add up to total column. Not all respondents answered each question.
*
= p<0.05 for small vs. medium;
†
= p<0.05 for small vs. large;
‡
= p<0.05 for medium vs. large