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. 2017 Sep 29;17:178. doi: 10.1186/s12909-017-1000-6

Table 1.

Participant characteristics (grouped by academic status). Discrepancies in numbers result from missing values

Junior physicians
(n = 569)
Assistant professors
(n = 264)
Sex Female 245 71
Male 313 187
Specialty Board Certification Yes 302 247
No 264 17
Age ≤35 years 272 10
36–45 years 186 87
>45 years 97 160
Teaching Experience ≤5 years 325 10
>5 years 239 253
Specialty Anaesthesiology 79 10
General Medicine & Paediatrics 48 27
Internal Medicine 104 36
Neurology & Psychiatry 67 29
Surgery, Orthopaedics & Urology 87 46
Other (includes Gynaecology, Ophthalmology, Pharmacology, Toxicology, Pathology, Dermatology etc.) 89 50