Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of focus group discussion (FGD) participants (N=74).
| Demographic characteristics | GXMUa (n=32) |
GXTCMUb (n=12) |
GLMUc (n=7) |
GZHMUd (n=7) |
KMMUe (n=7) |
FDUf (n=9) |
|
| Focus group discussion date | November to December, 2015 | March 25, 2016 | March 21, 2016 | May 20, 2016 | April 19, 2016 | March 28, 2016 | |
| Gender | |||||||
| Male | 11 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |
| Female | 21 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 8 | |
| Age, mean (SDg) | 24.56 (1.50) | 26.84 (3.74) | 25.71 (0.49) | 25.43 (2.94) | 25.14 (1.21) | 26.64 (0.67) | |
| Public health | 11 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 4 | |
| Clinical medicine | 6 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Basic science | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Others (ie, nutrition, pharmacology) | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Grade of study | |||||||
| First-year graduate | 18 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | |
| Second-year graduate | 8 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 3 | |
aGXMU: Guangxi Medical University.
bGXTCMU: Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine.
cGLMU: Guilin Medical University.
dGZHMU: Guangzhou Medical University.
eKMMU: Kunming Medical University.
fFDU: Fudan University.
gSD: standard deviation.