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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2017 Sep 4;180:151–155. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2017.08.010

Table 3.

Resident/fellow survey responses. Total, and stratified by whether the resident/fellow reported receiving education about medical marijuana.

Total Received
Education
Did Not Receive
Education
N
(258)
% N
(39)
% N
(219)
%
How prepared are you with answering patients' questions about medical marijuana? * Not at all 91 35.3% 3 7.7% 88 40.2%
Slightly 107 41.5% 12 30.8% 95 43.4%
Moderately 41 15.9% 14 35.9% 27 12.3%
Very 17 6.6% 8 20.5% 9 4.1%
Extremely 2 0.8% 2 5.1% 0 0.0%
How prepared are you with prescribing medical marijuana? Not at all 230 89.5% 32 82.1% 198 90.8%
Slightly 12 4.7% 3 7.7% 9 4.1%
Moderately 12 4.7% 4 10.3% 8 3.7%
Very 3 1.2% 0 0.0% 3 1.4%
Extremely 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0%
*

Significant difference in preparedness to answer questions about medical marijuana based on whether the resident/fellow received education about medical marijuana (Chi-square=40.13, df=2, p<0.0001)

“Prefer not to answer” was an option for each question, which accounts for the variability in numbers of responses. Only 0–2 participants chose this answer for any given question.