Table 1b. Specialisation, duration and sponsorship details of dentistry residents.
| Characteristics | No. (%) of Respondentsa(n=214) |
| Specialty: | |
| Oral and maxillofacial surgery | 68 (31.8) |
| Conservative Dentistry | 30 (14.0) |
| Paedodontics | 16 (7.5) |
| Orthodontics | 34 (15.9) |
| General Dental Practice | 8 (3.7) |
| Dental Public Health | 12 (5.6) |
| Prosthodontics | 9 (4.2) |
| Oral Medicine | 16 (7.5) |
| Oral Pathology | 11 (5.1) |
| Periodontics | 10 (4.7) |
| No of years spent in residency programme: | |
| ≤ 1 | 67 (31.6) |
| 2 | 24 (11.3) |
| 3 | 14 (6.6) |
| 4 | 29 (13.7) |
| 5 | 24 (11.3) |
| 6 | 20 (9.4) |
| >6 | 34 (16.0) |
| Exam passed: | |
| Yet to pass any exam | 19 (9.0) |
| Primaries | 97 (46.0) |
| Part One | 94 (44.5) |
| Part 2 | 1 (0.5) |
| Sponsorship: | |
| University/Teaching hospital staff | 158 (76.0) |
| Supernumerary | 34 (16.3) |
| Self | 16 (7.7) |
| aColumn may not add up to 214 due to missing values. | |