Table 6.

Distribution of interviewee responses: Research

	Hong Kong	Mainland	P value
Proportion of total working time spent on research
None	1 (5.0)	7 (14.0)	0.01*
10 %	12 (60.0)	11 (22.0)
20 %	7 (35.0)	20 (40.0)
50 %	0 (0.0)	10 (20.0)
> 70 %	0 (0.0)	2 (4.0)
Number of publications per year in training
Chinese	0	1.39
English	0.57	0.78	0.37**
Purpose of doing research
Interest	13 (38.2)	23 (20.9)	0.03*
Promotion	3 (8.8)	36 (32.7)
Solving clinical problems	10 (29.4)	21 (19.1)
Improving academic status	4 (11.8)	13 (11.8)
Improving clinical skills	4 (11.8)	17 (15.5)

^*Fisher’s exact test

^**Student’s t-test