Table 1.
Profile of responders to AOTrauma’s global needs analysis by region (Global = all regions).
| Percentages for regions and globally |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Question | Europe | North America | Middle East | Asia Pacific | Latin America | Global |
| Current position (practising surgeon doing mostly …) | ||||||
| Orthopaedic trauma | 42 | 54 | 63 | 59 | 42 | 49 |
| General orthopaedics (joint replacement, etc.) | 12 | 20 | 16 | 21 | 14 | 15 |
| General trauma | 25 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 14 |
| Specialty orthopaedics | 12 | 18 | 10 | 11 | 22 | 13 |
| Percentage of time on trauma | ||||||
| 0–30 | 30 | 40 | 27 | 39 | 28 | 32 |
| 40–60 | 36 | 23 | 52 | 43 | 46 | 40 |
| 70–100 | 34 | 37 | 21 | 19 | 26 | 28 |
| Current stage in career | ||||||
| Start of practice | 20 | 17 | 20 | 17 | 14 | 18 |
| Growing specialisation | 38 | 25 | 40 | 48 | 36 | 40 |
| Expertise | 42 | 58 | 40 | 35 | 50 | 42 |
| Graduated from medical school | ||||||
| 1992 and earlier | 39 | 48 | 45 | 31 | 37 | 38 |
| 1993–1997 | 17 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 16 | 17 |
| 1998–2002 | 20 | 21 | 15 | 27 | 23 | 22 |
| 2003–2007 | 23 | 19 | 24 | 23 | 24 | 23 |
| Fracture surgeries per week | ||||||
| 1–5 | 47 | 34 | 37 | 42 | 46 | 44 |
| 6–10 | 39 | 40 | 40 | 41 | 41 | 40 |
| 11–15 | 10 | 19 | 17 | 13 | 9 | 11 |
| More than 15 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
| Main practice setting | ||||||
| Level I trauma centre | 37 | 64 | 31 | 39 | 36 | 38 |
| Level II trauma centre | 30 | 16 | 35 | 31 | 28 | 29 |
| Local or community hospital | 30 | 15 | 19 | 18 | 23 | 24 |
| Private practice | 4 | 5 | 15 | 12 | 13 | 9 |
| Reasons for taking part in educational activities: strongly disagree = 1, strongly agree = 5 (values <4 are shown in italics) | ||||||
| When I encounter new patient care challenges or problems | 4.35 | 4.47 | 4.17 | 4.44 | 4.63 | 4.41 |
| To keep up to date in general in the area of orthopaedic trauma | 4.23 | 4.34 | 4.33 | 4.47 | 4.60 | 4.38 |
| To meet CME or other regulatory requirements | 3.07 | 3.59 | 3.37 | 3.24 | 3.39 | 3.22 |
| To learn about state-of-the art treatment options and the latest concepts and technology | 4.38 | 4.12 | 4.47 | 4.50 | 4.67 | 4.47 |
| To focus on a specific topic or area of practice | 4.09 | 4.07 | 3.88 | 4.22 | 4.29 | 4.14 |
| To improve operative techniques | 4.48 | 4.41 | 4.60 | 4.59 | 4.73 | 4.57 |
| To improve decision making | 4.40 | 4.31 | 4.55 | 4.61 | 4.69 | 4.52 |
| To improve preoperative assessment and diagnosis | 4.27 | 4.07 | 4.30 | 4.46 | 4.62 | 4.39 |
| To improve treatment selection and planning | 4.42 | 4.24 | 4.40 | 4.56 | 4.72 | 4.51 |
| To improve ability to recognise and manage complications | 4.39 | 4.26 | 4.42 | 4.50 | 4.71 | 4.48 |