Table 2.
Demographic Profile of 128 PEM Physicians from Four Academic Children's Hospitals in the Midwest Region of the United States
| Demographics | n (%) |
| Sex | |
| Female | 78 (61) |
| Male | 45 (35) |
| No response | 5 (4) |
| Hospital | |
| Site A | 43 (34) |
| Site B | 30 (23) |
| Site C | 23 (18) |
| Site D | 30 (23) |
| No response | 2 (2) |
| Current position | |
| Attending | 87 (68) |
| Years in practice (posttraining) | |
| 0–5 | 17 (13) |
| 6–15 | 35 (27) |
| >15 | 35 (27) |
| Fellow | 36 (28) |
| Fellowship Year 1 | 13 (10) |
| Fellowship Year 2 | 11 (8.6) |
| Fellowship Year 3 | 12 (9.4) |
| No response | 5 (4) |
| Training pathway | |
| Pediatrics or IM‐peds residency with PEM fellowship | 107 (83.6) |
| Emergency medicine residency with PEM fellowship | 16 (12.5) |
| No response | 5 (4) |
| Ultrasound education | |
| Formal US education program (in medical school, residency, or fellowship) | 60 (46.9) |
| Informal US education program (self‐taught, bedside instruction, CME as an attending) | 53 (41.4) |
| No US Education | 15 (11.7) |
| Proportion of US education specific to pediatrics | |
| All US training is in pediatrics (100%) | 34 (26.6) |
| Most | 34 (26.6) |
| Some | 24 (18.8) |
| None is pediatrics (0%) | 21 (16.4) |
| No US education at all | 15 (11.7) |
PEM = pediatric emergency medicine; US = ultrasound.