Table 1:
Characteristics of family medicine residents exiting training programs in 2016 and 2017 who responded to the Family Medicine Longitudinal Survey, by region
| Characteristic | No. (%) of respondents | p value* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total n = 1680 |
Ontario n = 561 |
Western Canada n = 663 |
Atlantic Canada n = 68 |
Quebec n = 388 |
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| Sex/gender | < 0.001 | |||||
| Male | 619 (37.6) | 177 (31.9) | 291 (45.3) | 23 (35.4) | 128 (33.7) | |
| Female | 1027 (62.4) | 378 (68.1) | 355 (54.7) | 42 (64.6) | 252 (66.3) | |
| Location of MD training | < 0.001 | |||||
| Canada | 1386 (85.6) | 477 (95.2) | 523 (78.9) | 59 (86.8) | 327 (84.5) | |
| International | 233 (14.4) | 24 (4.8) | 140 (21.1) | 9 (13.2) | 60 (15.5) | |
| Age, yr | < 0.001 | |||||
| < 30 | 931 (58.6) | 410 (73.3) | 318 (48.3) | 28 (42.4) | 175 (57.0) | |
| 30–34 | 433 (27.2) | 80 (14.3) | 222 (33.7) | 24 (36.4) | 107 (34.9) | |
| ≥ 35 | 226 (14.2) | 69 (12.3) | 118 (17.9) | 14 (21.2) | 25 (8.1) | |
| Time since completion of MD training, yr | < 0.001 | |||||
| 2 | 1325 (79.1) | 470 (83.8) | 489 (74.0) | 56 (82.4) | 310 (80.3) | |
| 3 | 145 (8.7) | 28 (5.0) | 67 (10.1) | 8 (11.8) | 42 (10.9) | |
| ≥ 4 | 206 (12.3) | 63 (11.2) | 105 (15.9) | 4 (5.9) | 34 (8.8) | |
| Childhood environment | < 0.001 | |||||
| Inner city, urban or suburban | 1051 (63.0) | 317 (56.5) | 428 (64.9) | 30 (47.6) | 276 (71.7) | |
| Small town | 280 (16.8) | 107 (19.1) | 93 (14.1) | 15 (23.8) | 65 (16.9) | |
| Rural, remote or isolated | 234 (14.0) | 92 (16.4) | 96 (14.6) | 15 (23.8) | 31 (8.1) | |
| Mixed | 103 (6.2) | 45 (8.0) | 42 (6.4) | 3 (4.8) | 13 (3.4) | |
Note: The following numbers of residents offered no response or preferred not to answer certain questions: 34 for sex/gender, 61 for place of MD training, 90 for age, 4 for time since completion of MD training and 12 for childhood environment.
*
Calculated with χ2 test.