Table 6. Proportion of cardiothoracic (CT) faculty who completed all their CT surgical training outside the US according to seniority, subspecialty and institutional ranking.
| All CT surgical training completed outside the US | 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 | |||||||||||
| Yes | 54 (7.8) | 31 (10.4) | 23 (5.8) | 40 (8.2) | 25 (12.3) | 15 (5.2) | 14 (6.8) | 6 (6.3) | 23 (21.3) | ||
| No | 640 (92.2) | 268 (89.6) | 372 (94.2) | 449 (91.8) | 178 (87.7) | 271 (94.8) | 191 (93.2) | 90 (93.8) | 85 (78.7) | ||
| P | – | 0.038± | – | 0.008± | – | 0.98± | |||||
| Junior faculty | |||||||||||
| Yes | 16 (6.3) | 11 (10.6) | 5 (3.3) | 14 (9.0) | 11 (17.5) | 3 (3.2) | 2 (2.0) | 0 (0) | 2 (3.5) | ||
| No | 238 (93.7) | 93 (89.4) | 145 (96.7) | 142 (91.0) | 52 (82.5) | 90 (96.8) | 96 (98.0) | 41 (100.0) | 55 (96.5) | ||
| P | – | 0.038± | – | 0.006± | – | 0.51FET | |||||
| Senior faculty | |||||||||||
| Yes | 36 (8.2) | 19 (9.8) | 17 (7.0) | 24 (7.3) | 13 (9.4) | 11 (5.7) | 12 (11.2) | 6 (10.9) | 6 (11.5) | ||
| No | 401 (91.8) | 174 (90.2) | 227 (93.0) | 306 (92.7) | 125 (90.6) | 181 (94.3) | 95 (88.8) | 49 (89.1) | 46 (88.5) | ||
| P | – | 0.36± | – | 0.29± | – | 1± | |||||
Data expressed as number (percentage). For some CT surgeons “year of graduation from medical school” is missing data. ±, Chi square test. FET, Fisher exact test.