Table 4. Proportion of international medical graduates (IMGs) and US medical graduates (USMGs) according to seniority, subspecialty and institutional ranking.
| Variables | Cardiac and thoracic surgeons | Cardiac surgeons only | Thoracic surgeons only | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All CT centers | Top CT centers | Other CT centers | All CT centers | Top CT centers | Other CT centers | All CT centers | Top CT centers | Other CT centers | |||
| All faculty | |||||||||||
| USMGs | 542 (78.6) | 232 (78.1) | 310 (78.9) | 377 (77.7) | 155 (77.1) | 222 (78.2) | 165 (80.5) | 77 (80.2) | 88 (80.7) | ||
| IMGs | 148 (21.4) | 65 (21.9) | 83 (21.1) | 108 (22.3) | 46 (22.9) | 62 (21.8) | 40 (19.5) | 19 (19.8) | 21 (19.3) | ||
| P | – | 0.88± | – | 0.87± | – | 1± | |||||
| Junior faculty | |||||||||||
| USMGs | 201 (79.4) | 78 (75.0) | 123 (82.6) | 117 (75.5) | 43 (68.3) | 74 (80.4) | 84 (85.7) | 35 (85.4) | 49 (86.0) | ||
| IMGs | 52 (20.6) | 26 (25.0) | 26 (17.4) | 38 (24.5) | 20 (31.7) | 18 (19.6) | 14 (14.3) | 6 (14.6) | 8 (14.0) | ||
| P | – | 0.19± | 0.12± | – | 1± | ||||||
| Senior faculty | |||||||||||
| USMGs | 340 (78.0) | 153 (79.7) | 187 (76.6) | 260 (78.8) | 112 (81.2) | 148 (77.1) | 81 (75.7) | 42 (76.4) | 39 (75.0) | ||
| IMGs | 96 (22.0) | 39 (20.3) | 57 (23.4) | 70 (21.2) | 26 (18.8) | 44 (22.9) | 26 (24.3) | 13 (23.6) | 13 (25.0) | ||
| P | – | 0.50± | – | 0.45± | – | 1± | |||||
Data expressed as number (percentage). ±, Chi square test.