TABLE 6.

Association of overall competence in procedural skills and demographic variables.

Demographic variables	Overall competence in procedural skills*
	Anaesthesia	ENT	Surgery	O&G	Orthopaedics	Medicine	Paediatrics	Ophthalmology	Dermatology	Urology
Age	0.03	0.57	0.86	0.65	0.72	0.96	0.52	0.39	0.53	0.87
Gender	0.66	0.5	0.03	0.41	0.02	0.13	1	0.88	0.18	0.005
Years of experience	0.41	0.97	0.67	0.09	0.84	0.86	0.2	0.78	0.02	0.12
Discipline (where spent most of the time)	0.05	0.85	0.62	0.39	0.24	0.07	0.44	0.54	0.18	0.89
Undergraduate study (in SA or outside SA)	0.77	0.31	0.23	0.34	0.52	0.14	0.35	0.47	0.75	0.44
Family medicine training	0.6	0.3	0.69	0.26	0.59	0.87	0.91	0.6	0.74	0.28
Current hospital	0.01	0.19	0.15	0.015	0.16	0.94	0.78	0.05	0.01	0.26

ENT, ear, nose and throat; O&G, obstetrics and gynaecology; SA, South Africa.

^*, p values.